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From: akira@atson.asahi-np.co.jp (Akira Takiguchi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Another reason I hate NFS: Silent data loss!
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Date: 23 Jun 91 13:50:18 GMT
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     There's another reason for NFS to fail:  hardware bugs.  I heard that
at least one hardware did have a bug in the ethernet controller, and what
at first seemed to be an NFS bug was caused by somewhat mangled data on
ethernet collision [so the bug appeared only on heavy load].
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