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Subject: Re: dosfsck anyone?
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 07:44:11 +0200 (SAT)
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In-Reply-To: <199605070333.UAA22712@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 6, 96 08:33:58 pm
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > > How will these anomolies be introduced?  By (in violation of usage
> > > semantics) caching?
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> I assumed that the problems being corrected would come from the BSD
> MSDOSFS crashing with cache data in core instead of on disk, etc..

Agreed.  The present code has some 'mv'-related problems that also
sometimes produce related effects. 8(

-- 
Robert Nordier