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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Disappearing disk space (V6 & V7)
Message-ID: <333@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 01:38:59 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 01:38:59 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Mar-86 01:17:12 EST
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Keywords: black hole, v6, directories, Boulder
Summary: "Black Hole"

I'll have to go back and dig up the code and fix for the "Black
Hole" bug, presented at Boulder.  Directories were getting more
files than they could legitimately hold, causing singularities,
wherein the directory would collapse and no files could be
retrieved from them or perceived in them, although more files
could be put in them and thus disappear from the face of the disk.
This was presented as a detective story, on how the reason for
disk space disappearing was discovered.  It was named before we
knew that the theatre in which it was presented was showing the
Disney film of the same name.
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}