Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 06:37:29 -0600 From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Directory entries get corrupted? Message-ID: <199501261237.GAA07421@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Jan 95 09:13:19 %2B0200." <199501260713.JAA04848@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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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.
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