From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Subject: Re: async vs. sync
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:36:55 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:48:12AM -0800, Lever, Charles wrote:
> i'm just looking for clarification so i can provide a good explanation
> in the Linux NFS FAQ about the evils of using "async."  i'll cruise
> through the server code.

Just about the only reason for async I can think of is if you have an
incoming data stream you need to write at a constant rate (think of a
diskless set top box writing an mpeg2 stream)

Olaf
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