I found the talk (in the comments on Shaver's 2008 blog article that cropped up in another comment - I was close on the time at least) It's by Stewart Smith, i

I found the talk (in the comments on Shaver's 2008 blog article that cropped up in another comment - I was close on the time at least) It's by Stewart Smith, it's called "Eat My Data: How Everybody gets File I/O wrong", and it's well worth watching: http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2007/video/talks/278.ogg http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2007/video/talk...