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From: timr@labtam.oz (Tim Roper)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: NFS problems: ed(1) doesn't work on NFS mounted filesystem!?!?
Keywords: NFS, ed, 386ix
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Date: 8 Mar 90 01:04:59 GMT
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I think this is because ed has a "feaure" whereby it refuses to attempt to
write to a file system that doesn't have enough space left.
Unfortunately it thinks blocks are always 512 bytes so it can make the
wrong decision for file systems with bigger blocks.  Maybe NFS filesystems
are the ones you have with bigger blocks but not too many of them.

Every second 'w' works because typing 'w' again is the ed way of saying
you really mean it (as for writes to read-only files).

-Tim.