On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:54:42PM -0801, Jacob Meuser wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:16:16PM -0800, Patrick R. Wade wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:49:33PM -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote: >> > >> >Softdep makes fsck _very_ reliable, >> > >> >> The most utterly hosed filesystem i have ever had the misfortune to >> be afflicted with, came to me courtesy of softupdates. >> >> The enormous files with the immutable flag set, the files with negative >> timestamps, the files with names from the content of other files, the >> files with content based on the names of other files; i shudder still to >> think of it. I don't think it gave me files with slashes in the filenames, >> but i would not have been surprised if it had. > >Was this recently? >
No ; in 2001, on BSD/OS. -- "That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX." "Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive." --Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon" _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
