Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:51:35 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, phk@ref.tfs.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw Subject: Re: Quantum hardware errors (Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE asc:87,0) Message-ID: <199506081451.QAA24599@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 1995 10:42:51 %2B0200." <9032.802514571@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> > I hoped to fix tar, cpio and pax to at least complain about the > > truncation. How about skipping special files that can't be stored > > without loss? > > That would certainly be better than nothing! Right now it's just > a hidden bomb. Perhaps one could set major & minor to some std. unallocated number, & set mode to 0, then one would have a permanent indication of the device that's missing ? (I presume we already have a standard dev_maj_unallocated or some such, or could add one for bug detection ?) PS dont use 0,0 - that's console ! Julian S.
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