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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: creeping fsck bug with System V FIFO
Message-ID: <12454@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 27 Oct 88 20:51:17 GMT
References: <6607@venera.isi.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <6607@venera.isi.edu> cracraft@venera.isi.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes:
| I have a System V machine; When I do an fsck, it reports
| Possible file size error, and then "I=nnnn" where the
| inode is named.

Some versions of fsck report this for a FIFO, and also for a sparse
file, such as some forms of database and core dumps. I'm not sure I've
ever seen a case in which there really was an error with that error
message, but I suppose that there must be SOME case.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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