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Does it mean the async functions about file system operations are not really asynchronous in Node.js? The whole node.js server will be blocked if the number of

Does it mean the async functions about file system operations are not really asynchronous in Node.js? The whole node.js server will be blocked if the number of file system operations is bigger than the thread pool size. :-(

laggyluke 12y ago
Not the whole server - most of the networking IO will work just fine, only the operations that use libuv thread pool will be queued.
- vinceyuan 12y ago
  Got it. queued != blocked Thanks!