>Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>[snipped a lot of good stuff]
>>
>>But...file system access won't see it (unless someone goes out of their
>>way to poke the EOF high enough first, which is unlikely).
>>
>>Further, I wouldn't want to count on any backup program being smart
>>enough to correctly notice the extra data on disk, and back it up
>>for me!
>
>It might be worth noting that mapped access to files does not
>work with high-availabilty software, i.e. NetBase (aka SharePlex).
 
Or, for that matter, with "low-availability" software such as NS remote
file access :-).
 
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