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From: vic <zandy@cs.wisc.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] question about union dirs
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:32:48 -0500
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[ I tried to post this to comp.os.plan9 on Weds, but
  it has not appeared yet. ]

When Plan 9 searches for a name in a union directory,
what happens when one or more of the member directories
in unavailable (because, say, the machine is
temporarily disconnected from that directory's file
server)?

Does the whole search block until the individual one
completes?  Or is it skipped once the kernel, somehow,
determines that it is unavailable?  Or something else?

Thanks.

Vic