[Info-vax] Interesting NFS bug...

[JF Mezei]

John Gemignani, Jr. wrote:

> If you leave it to the XQP, it is quite expensive as it can tie up a thread 
> to
> fill all of that space with nulls using smaller IO. I chose to have the NFS
> server zero fill the area itself with massive asynchronous IO. 


Since the redundant data at the end of the block varied depending on
previous NFS transfers, I would tend to think that this is not related
to the VMS file system itself, but rather about buffer management in the
NFS drivers.