destage
verbEtymology From de- + stage.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To asynchronously write new or updated data from a cache or nonvolatile storage to a direct access storage device.
- A root item of data is located, and then a working set of data is collected by identifying additional data in the cache that will be destaged to locations in the storage device adjacent to the root item of data.