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Subject: Re: anyone have a clue on this bug?
To: julian@freefall.freebsd.org (Julian Elischer)
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 23:30:50 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199607230933.CAA01679@freefall.freebsd.org> from Julian Elischer at "Jul 23, 96 02:33:10 am"
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In reply to Julian Elischer who wrote:
> 
> It's bitten us several times on recent -current machines..
> 
> due to some problem, a system dies..
> (bad h/w or whatever..)
> on reboot it is discovered that some the files that were open at
> the time of the reboot have been deleted by fsck
> (i.e. they had 0 references or something)
> 
> it's particulary annoying when it deletes the console or some other
> useful device.. I've mainly seen it with devices,
> but I think I have also seen directories mutating into devices
> and files doing other odd things..

Seems like bad hw, I havn't seen anything like this, except when I
tried out DEVFS long ago....


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