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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 14 Feb 1996 02:05:16 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie) wrote:
[ ... block referenced by sync metadata write but async write ... ]
] As a humorous but genuine example of that, I include a user's
] message (suitably anonymised) that we received after our 2100
] (running Digital UNIX with the BSD FFS) crashed in December.
]
] > Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 15:20:20 GMT
] > From: J Random User <jruser>
] > Apparently-To: root
] >
] > I know funny things happen after crashes, but this is a new one on me.
] > My .pinerc file now contains lots of ascii pictures of cows.
] > Please can I have the old one back?
] > I haven't had time to look at many of the other files - do you think I should?
] > Thanks
] >
] > Random User
]
] We restored the user's real .pinerc from backup but another of our users
] must still be missing those cows.
Clearly, someone anserwed "no" to "Clear?" during the fsck after
the crash.
Or you are using an outdated set of recovery tools.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.