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To: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Directory entries get corrupted? 
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 06:37:29 -0600
From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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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.