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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] writing with cdfs 
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 22:35:33 -0500

> when this hangs, it _really_ hangs.  cdfs is un-killable, as
> is any process talking to it, like the cat and ls above.

Speaking of that, one of my pet peeves is that a misbehaving file server
can make application processes uninterruptably block in read or write.
It reminds me of the early days of NFS.