file-copy corruption

[tomhorsley at adelphia.net]

> 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.