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Date:      Thu, 26 Jan 1995 15:47:12 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Directory entries get corrupted?
Message-ID:  <199501261347.PAA06693@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <199501261237.GAA07421@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Jan 26, 95 06:37:29 am

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> 
> Anything fsck tells you about an active file system should be taken with
> a pinch of salt, a spoonful of sugar, and extreme suspicion. After all, it's
> setpping through the disk looking for pointers to the wrong places while the
> O/S is moving those pointers out from under it. It's no surprise that some
> times the pointy end of a pointer is pointing to a block that's actually
> holding something that pointer shouldn't be pointing to by the time it gets
> around to it.
> 
I get the same errors if I unmount that disk before doing the fsck.

John Hay -- jhay@mikom.csir.co.za



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