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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:50:27 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?
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> protocol itself. The problem is it forces the server and client to
> synchronise on every read/write syscall, which results in terrible
> bandwidth utilisation. Unless we see some remarkable improvements in
[...]
>
>  I'm sure I've missed something, but readahead is safe for all these
> constructs except event files, where if you readahead (and get data)
> but the client closes the file before actually read()-ing the buffered

unfortunately, client caching is problematic.

the open research question is, how to make latency the
domain of the file server(s) and not of the application.

- erik