Merge pull request #605 in SNORT/snort3 from file to master

Squashed commit of the following:

commit 221b3697a6b686189041442fc22e002e5482870f
Author: huica <huica@cisco.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 26 10:52:57 2016 -0400

    Update dev notes

diff --git a/src/file_api/dev_notes.txt b/src/file_api/dev_notes.txt
index 089b8008e0c67dc90d4ed4851ee9b44a7e7a316f..9c01c43f869bee2fbc6dba80b6d1ec5c0141d331 100644 (file)
--- a/src/file_api/dev_notes.txt
+++ b/src/file_api/dev_notes.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ packet thread. When a file is available to store, it will be put into a queue.
 The writer thread will read from this queue to write to disk. In the multiple 
 packet thread case, many threads will write into this queue and one writer thread
 serves all of them. Thread synchronization is done by mutex and conditional
-variables for the queue.
+variables for the queue. In the future, we will add support for multiple writer
+threads to improve performance when multiple disks are used.
 
 * File libraries: provides file type identification and file signature
 calculation