Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:06:50 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: Kernel thread system nomenclature. Message-ID: <20010710110650.M506@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107061806540.33400-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:14:03PM -0700 References: <XFMail.010706161600.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107061806540.33400-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On 2001-Jul-06 18:14:03 -0700, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: >#3 ??? (thread carrier (spindle? :-)) or thread-processor A spindle is a physical disk drive (or at least independent head assembly) - I/O rates are associated with spindles rather than [virtual/RAID] disks. If we're going to use the sewing analogy, maybe "bobbin" :-). Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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