>> Are occasional undetected errors like this to be expected? >> I thought there were sufficient stages of checksumming/parity >> (both boxes have ECC memory) etc to render the probability >> of this to be vanishingly small. >It has always been my experience that NFS, to use a technical term, sucks :-). >(Especially if there are different operating systems and NFS versions >involved at either end). rsync or SMB or even ftp or kermit seem infinitely >more reliable. I've had no problems with NFS per-se. The Alpha has been running as an NFS fileserver for several years, and the Linux box seems to be handling NFS traffic satisfactorily (I've seen > 10K NFS requests/sec and better than 60MiB/sec). It has to run as an NFS fileserver. I wasnt just using NFS as a means of copying.. T.
