Beyond Block I/O: Rethinking Traditional Storage Primitives ∗Xiangyong Ouyang†‡, David Nellans†, Robert Wipfel†, David Flynn†, Dhabaleswar K. Panda‡ † FusionIO and ‡The Ohio State UniversityAbstractOver the last twenty years the interfaces for access- ing persistent storage within a computer system have re- mained essentially unchanged. Simply put, seek, read and write have defined the fundamental operations that can be performed against storage devices. These three interfaces have endured becau