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From: hastings@coherent.com (Reed Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: SunOS file corruption
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Date: 13 Feb 90 01:23:12 GMT
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Reply-To: hastings@coherent.com (Reed Hastings)
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I have heard that there was an old BSD bug such that if you let your
disk get more than 90% full you were likely to "lose files" or
"create garbage inodes" or similar ugly things.  

Can anyone confirm & clarify this, and most importantly, comment 
on whether it still exists in SunOS 4.x.

Many thanks, 
  -Reed.

Reed Hastings
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