Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!montnaro From: montnaro@sprite.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Problems with large RMAIL files? Message-ID: Date: 28 Aug 89 13:19:09 GMT References: <65300@linus.UUCP> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: (Skip Montanaro) Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY Lines: 14 In-reply-to: walters@chance.uucp's message of 23 Aug 89 18:26:40 GMT In article <65300@linus.UUCP> walters@chance.uucp (Chris Walters) writes: We are experiencing strange behavior with RMAIL. Messages in large files (folders) appear to be truncated, and new messages are inserted in strange places on occasion. Once, a large number of NULLS were inserted into the folder, where the rest of the message should have been. My guess would be that you are using NFS, and mounting your read-write file systems using the "soft" attribute. Mount them "hard" instead. 'Tis not Emacs's problem, unless there is an error being returned on the write(2) that it's not paying attention to. -- Skip Montanaro (montanaro@sprite.crd.ge.com)