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> that assumes the client uses a threaded implementation too, doesn't it?

I used the term "thread" loosely. Anything that might do NFS RPCs concurrently,
such as different processes, biods (I called them nfsiods) that do read-ahead
or write behind, etc.

It wouldn't apply to a DOS client, rick