Re: XFS and Emacs don't play nice

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 00:30 11-7-2001 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:26:02AM -0500, sandeen@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Daniel Stone wrote:
> >
> > > I'm getting null-byte
> > > corruption through entire files (my entire /etc/mailcap got replaced with
> > > null bytes, as did the postinst's for a few packages).
> >
> > Can this be traced to system hangs or crashes, or is this on a happily
> > running system?  If it's the former, then see Steve's explanation in
> > this thread...
>
> It has hung, but only after I've got the corruption. Probably due to heat, I
> don't know and don't particularly care, because it runs 99.9% of the time,
> and there's nothing I can do about the heat, short of ripping out a couple
> of hard drives, getting a bigger case and rearranging stuff.

I've got a big one to fit all my stuff in ;)
http://www.yeongyang.com/products/yy0320-0330.htm

> As for the null bytes, I knew what I was in for when I started tracking XFS
> CVS. *shrug*

Yay!

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.