On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 03:25:53PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> Well, the process doing whatever directory op has to wait a little longer
> in the non-async case... and in the MFS case, you may have to wait for
> the MFS server process to run again... but async avoids that.
> 
> Of course, the "wait for MFS server process" is really just a
> side-effect of the way MFS is implemented.
> 
> I.e. it really should be rewritten from scratch.

In the form of a kernel thread? Or were you hinting at some other aspect
that needs to be fixed?

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