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From: "Steve Sims" <SimsS@IBM.Net>
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Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system.
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 09:44:32 -0500
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Brian Tao <taob@io.org> pens:

[File Corruption vis-a-vis UFS & MSDOSFS ]
>    On another occasion, ld.so complained it couldn't find needed
> libraries, and an 'ls -l' in /usr/lib showed corrupted directory
> entries (strange filenames, huge file sizes, etc.)  I immediately
> rebooted and after the fsck, nothing appeared to be lost.

====
I had a similar experience with UFS corruption (ld.so complaints) but without
the happy ending you cite:  An fsck *didn't* fix it - the entire lib tree was
hosed -- to the point of a system rebuild to sort things out. 

Since that, I've religiously avoided MSDOS file systems.  That's why FTP was
invented, I guess ;-).

While I endorse the movement to disable (or make it harder to mount) DOS file
systems as a *real*-short-term fix, the real goal _is_ to fix MSDOSFS.  How
can I help in testing same?

...sjs...