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From: iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: RISC Ultrix 3.1 NFS bug(?)
Message-ID: <25E5B8AD.23477@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 22:26:53 GMT
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Reply-To: iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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We just found out that there is a known Sun NFS bug (ref # 1014577)
for SunOS 4.0.  Here's the info we have:


Synopsis: NFS mounted files occasionally get garbage/nulls written to them.

Description:
Occasionally when writing to NFS mounted files, parts of a file are replaced
exactly (no insertions or deletions) with garbage, usually nulls.  This can 
span several appens to the file by distinct processes running minutes apart.


Does that sound like the problem you're having?  We've seen the results
of this bug, but have no idea (until now) how to cause it.



Mike Iglesias
University of California, Irvine