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Well I actually did not give you that much info. Lets try again. I was looking for a general response because so far DFS which I know uses a different redirector seems to have more delayed writes and flakes out I believe more so with windows 2003 under VMWARE. &nbsp;It is not clear why the flake-out but it happens every so often and considering the file corruption problems this would be best avoided.<br />
1st thought I had was to use UNCs instead of DFS paths but this is based on a believe that DFS is inherrently buggy especially under VMWARE. &nbsp; I have also seen problems when disks were heavilly fragmented. The problems experienced are low level OS problems but why they happen or how to stop them I know not!
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Well I actually did not give you that much info. Lets try again. I was looking for a general response because so far DFS which I know uses a different redirector seems to have more delayed writes and flakes out I believe more so with windows 2003 under VMWARE.  It is not clear why the flake-out but it happens every so often and considering the file corruption problems this would be best avoided.
1st thought I had was to use UNCs instead of DFS paths but this is based on a believe that DFS is inherrently buggy especially under VMWARE.   I have also seen problems when disks were heavilly fragmented. The problems experienced are low level OS problems but why they happen or how to stop them I know not!

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Does anyone else have any explanation of this??
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Does anyone else have any explanation of this??

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Can anyone comment on &nbsp;problems with disk reads and wirtes on network drives caused by the use of DFS? We have a problem where by the use of DFS is definitely causing file corruption. If UNCs were used instead would that possibly improve reliability
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Can anyone comment on  problems with disk reads and wirtes on network drives caused by the use of DFS? We have a problem where by the use of DFS is definitely causing file corruption. If UNCs were used instead would that possibly improve reliability

Can anyone comment on the bug issues with DFS versus UNC?

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