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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Why IDE is bad
To: hasty@star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty)
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> > What do you mean "async mounts"?
> 
> mount -o async /dev/ ...

Does nothing.  The 'async' option if for when a process is around to
do retries.  Remote file system only, since a local file system will
just mount successfully.

Why, what do you think it should *do* instead?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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