Alice and Bob in I/O LandTable of contents Originally written by guy keren TOC --> Alice, Bob And Their Race To Disk-Haven Alice is a file-system write request. Bob is a raw-device write request. They both want to get to the haven of the disk drive - and fast... ...and yet not too fast - not if their friends are coming soon! Let us follow their journey through Linux's file systems... ...page caches, block devices, elevato
