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Async or Sync I/O on NFS ?

Solaris 2.8

I know regular filesystems use Async I/O on Solaris 2.8. Does anybody know if NFS uses Sync I/O or Async I/O ?

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5.9. Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Behavior in NFS

This link has a very good discussion on NFS and sync, async I/O:

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/performance.html

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