Alice and Bob in I/O Land

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Bob goes into I/O land

The programmer used 'write' (or its variants) to a block device file
Writing to a block device file implies writing into the device itself
Byte offsets map linearly into sector numbers on the block device.
TODO: can write to unaligned location if going via the cache?

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