Acknowledgments

I'd like to thank several people who made major contributions to this book. Matt O'Keefe helped me immensely when I was just getting under way by pointing out weaknesses in my previous analysis of system storage processes. He also got me started on the more realistic and Byzantine analysis that runs throughout this book. Matt has contributed heavily to the development of open-source storage software for Linux and possesses major storage wisdom.

Toward the end of the project, I circled up with Bruce Thompson for a sanity check and some finishing touches. Bruce truly has an advanced view of storage, coming from many years of working through the strange and frustrating relationships between file systems, operating systems, and device ...

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