> That brings up a question of interest to me. How do you effectively > read ahead with the 9p protocol? Even if you issued many read > requests in parallel, the server is allowed to return less data than > was asked for. You'll end up with holes in your buffer that require > at least another roundtrip to fill.
The option is to make servers obey R order for Ts with same tag - just as Russ (right?) proposed elsewhere on the list.