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On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 09:15:45PM -0700, Lars Eggert wrote:
> I can only say that (1) I've been getting these forever, on both -stable 
> and -current, and (2) I personally have never lost any data.
> 
> However, I have no clue as to why you and I get them, or what they signify.

I have a vague feeling they are related to a directory changing while it
is being read, and might mean that the NFS client sees an inconsistent
version of the directory. It's been a long time since I looked at it
though.

	David.