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Date:      Tue, 21 Dec 1999 21:16:14 +0800 (CST)
From:      Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Extremely bizarre filename behavior (3.3-RELEASE)
Message-ID:  <199912211316.VAA50647@netrinsics.com>
In-Reply-To: <199912211002.SAA50337@netrinsics.com>

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I wrote:
>This filesystem passes fsck without a peep.  Is it possible that the vast
>number of long, random filenames is causing lossage in the filename
>hashing?  The system is 3.3-RELEASE.  I'm going to upgrade to 3.4-RELEASE
>tonight to see if the problems persist.

Ok, I'm an idiot.  Terminating spaces were leaking in from Windows users
through Samba.  It never occurred to me that sending filenames through
a pipe from "find" to "xargs" (how I discovered the problem) will strip
whitespace from filenames.

Sorry.  Older and wiser, now.

	-Michael Robinson



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