I think it's preserved at:
http://www.kde.org/food/linux_is_obsolete.html
joelja
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Martin von Loewis wrote:
> > Is there any point to using threaded FS drivers? or threaded physical
> > hardware drivers?
>
> The Linux file system drivers have been threaded for ages. Multiple
> processes can access different files in an overlapping fashion; while
> one process is waiting for a request to complete, the file system might
> already look into the request of another process.
>
> There are a few places where concurrent access is not desirable, Linux
> supports locks on the inode level and on the superblock level for
> these cases.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Martin
>
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