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I was expecting something about GPUs as well.

IMO it doesn’t make much sense to call things that run on the CPU “direct.” Direct access to resources is the assumption if you are running on the CPU, right?

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"Direct" here is more analogous to the Direct as in DirectX and Direct3D.

directfs has nothing to do with DirectX.

I find it deeply ironic this needs to be said here.

DirectStorage does, thought.

Ah... Okay, I think I see how the comment should have been read now...?

I will blame whoever named directfs for using a confounding name one way or the other. :V

I think the comment which was in response to mine is pretty ambiguous, it isn’t obvious to me what they mean by “here” (in the article, in the comment I responded to, or in my comment?).

Author of the blog here.

Point taken. In retrospect, directfs is not a good name as it gives the impression of a new filesystem implemention. I should have named this more along the lines of "direct access mode" as some of you have pointed out.

Thanks for the feedback.

As the other commenter wrote, I was replying directly to the parent and was referring to DirectStorage. I use DirectX apis daily haha

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