diff --git a/activemq-kahadb-store/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/store/kahadb/disk/page/PageFile.java b/activemq-kahadb-store/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/store/kahadb/disk/page/PageFile.java
index 519a1a2..a8f975e 100644
--- a/activemq-kahadb-store/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/store/kahadb/disk/page/PageFile.java
+++ b/activemq-kahadb-store/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/store/kahadb/disk/page/PageFile.java
@@ -178,7 +178,6 @@
             this.page = page;
             current = data;
             currentLocation = -1;
-            diskBoundLocation = -1;
         }
 
         public void setCurrentLocation(Page page, long location, int length) {
diff --git a/activemq-kahadb-store/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/store/kahadb/disk/index/PageFileTransactionAsyncTest.java b/activemq-kahadb-store/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/store/kahadb/disk/index/PageFileTransactionAsyncTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..97509ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/activemq-kahadb-store/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/store/kahadb/disk/index/PageFileTransactionAsyncTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
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+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
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+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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+ */
+package org.apache.activemq.store.kahadb.disk.index;
+
+import org.apache.activemq.store.kahadb.disk.page.PageFile;
+import org.apache.activemq.store.kahadb.disk.page.Transaction;
+import org.apache.activemq.store.kahadb.disk.util.LongMarshaller;
+import org.apache.activemq.store.kahadb.disk.util.StringMarshaller;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+
+public class PageFileTransactionAsyncTest {
+
+    @Test(timeout=60000)
+    public void testLargeTransactionPageOkForReuse() throws Exception {
+
+        int numPagesToExercise = 4000;
+
+        PageFile pf = new PageFile(new File("target/test-data"), "PageFileTransactionAsyncTest");
+        pf.setEnableWriteThread(true);
+        pf.setWriteBatchSize(5000);
+        pf.load();
+
+        LinkedList<Index> indices = new LinkedList<>();
+        for (int i=0; i<numPagesToExercise; i++) {
+            indices.add(createIndex(pf));
+        }
+
+        // large tx
+        Transaction tx = pf.tx();
+        for (Index i : indices) {
+            for (int j=0; j<10; j++) {
+                i.put(tx, key(j), (long) j);
+            }
+        }
+        tx.commit();
+
+        // with some of those writes disk bound, exercise again
+        for (Index i : indices) {
+            tx = pf.tx();
+            i.put(tx, key(0), (long)0);
+            tx.commit();
+        }
+
+        // lets see if it is ok!
+        pf.flush();
+        pf.unload();
+        pf.delete();
+    }
+
+    private String key(int v) {
+        return "key:"+v;
+    }
+
+    protected Index<String, Long> createIndex(PageFile pf) throws Exception {
+
+        Transaction tx = pf.tx();
+        long id = tx.allocate().getPageId();
+
+        BTreeIndex<String, Long> index = new BTreeIndex<String,Long>(pf, id);
+        index.setKeyMarshaller(StringMarshaller.INSTANCE);
+        index.setValueMarshaller(LongMarshaller.INSTANCE);
+        index.load(tx);
+        tx.commit();
+
+        return index;
+    }
+
+}