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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:13:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years
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> I thought 9p had tagged requests so you could put many requests in flight
> at
> once, then synchronize on them when the server replied.

This is exactly what fcp(1) does, which is used by replica.

If you want to read a virtual file however, these often
don't support seeks or implement them in unexpected ways
(returning one line per read rather than a buffer full).

Thus running multiple reads (on the same file) only really
works for files which operate as read disks - e.g. real disks,
ram disks etc.

-Steve