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Date:      Wed, 07 Jun 1995 01:42:51 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        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:  <9032.802514571@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 95 18:03:14 %2B1000." <199506070803.SAA07793@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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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.

				Jordan




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