> Not sure. Have a look at CreateFile documentation - discussing
> FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING they always refer to disk, not network
> connection. For example - "Buffer addresses for read and write
> operations should be sector aligned, which means aligned on addresses in
> memory that are integer multiples of the volume sector size". Please
> agree, that this makes no sense for data, read from network.
>
> What about building experimental SS for you - sorry, I don't have now
> working win32build environment.

And we have no guarantie that all buffers passed to the PIO properly
aligned. I.e. it is not a question of activate file flag only

Regards,
Vlad