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To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>
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Subject: Re: Update: 2.0.5 scrambled filesystems. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 95 10:15:07 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 07:34:33 -0700
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>>    Yeah, try not mounting your dos filesystem and see if that makes any
>> difference.
>
>Bingo!  What gives?  How does reading from the /dos filesystem clobber
>the /usr filesystem?  Does this bug show up on all systems?  Shouldn't
>this be flagged in <bold><italic>red  </italic></bold>in the installation 
>info<bold><italic>?</italic></bold>

   Um, well, if we knew it was *that* broken, I suppose. I don't really know
why it is clobbering things, but a quick guess would be that it is using
old vnodes that have been reclaimed...but I really have no idea. We've known
that msdosfs is broken for sometime - but not in this particular way. "Oh
well". :-)

-DG