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Re:What Every Data Programmer Needs to Know About Disks by wazoox on Monday August 22, 2011 @07:51AM (#2912151)
Paint me unimpressed. "eat my Data" was a way, way better and deeper presentation:

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3172

Get the presentation here: http://flamingspork.com/talks/2007/06/eat_my_data.odp

Re:What Every Data Programmer Needs to Know About Disks by Swannie on Monday August 22, 2011 @08:50AM (#2912265)
Thank you for that link. This is a far more interesting presentation than the OT. (Though it does assume some prior knowledge, like what fsync is, etc.)
Re:What Every Data Programmer Needs to Know About Disks by vimalg2 on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @12:35AM (#2915355)
Found the video if anyone else is interested (same talk, but from 2007) : http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2007/video/talk...