On 2011-01-27 at 09:24 +0800 Jacky Lam sent off: > Thanks. It is new to me, but it doesn't answer why recvfile/splice > implementation has not chance to be used when my XP are writing to > it. Any other idea? there was someone experimenting with splice and samba some time ago: http://samba.2283325.n4.nabble.com/recvfile-by-linux-splice-td2474663.html Björn