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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Another reason I hate NFS: Silent data loss!
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.064615.21165@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 06:46:15 GMT
References: <4339.Jun1501.31.5191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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In article <4339.Jun1501.31.5191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

> I just ran about twenty processes simultaneously, each feeding into
> its own output file in the same NFS-mounted directory.  About half
> the data was lost: truncated files, blocks full of zeros, etc.

Was it a hard mount?  Then report a bug to your vendor.  Otherwise, you
asked for it, you got it.

					der Mouse

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