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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, jdc@crab.xinside.com,
        hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: Am I dreaming? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Feb 95 22:43:42 EST."
             <9502020343.AA20549@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> 
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1995 21:16:29 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
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> amd relies on NFS retransmissions for reliability.  If it needs to do
> something that isn't finished right away, it will just drop the
> packet, start the operation, and let the kernel eventually time out

I think the question was more one of how it get its mitts on user
requests for files that aren't currently mounted.

					Jordan