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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [bug report] NFS and uninterruptable wait states
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From: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
Date: 03 Sep 2001 13:50:09 -0400
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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:

> /me tries to work out why anyone would ever want filesystem accesses to be 
> uninterruptible.

Hmmm, "because V6 did it that way"?  It was probably significantly
faster back in those days...

;)

-Doug
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