jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) (03/31/91)
While downloading something (actually, receiving it via uucp) to a floppy disk a few days ago, I suddenly realized that it might be too big to fit on the disk. I checked and, sure enough, there was half the file to go and only about 18 blocks left on the disk. So I used Move (the ARP version, if it makes a difference) to move another file onto another floppy. Move took a long time to complete -- so long that I was sure the disk should've filled up. But it didn't fill up, and both Move and the download eventually completed without any errors or "disk full" requesters. But when I looked at the file I had downloaded, about the last 10K was missing. Worse, part of what was there was corrupt. (It uncompressed to about half good data and half garbage; the garbage then made RNews guru.) So, there seems to be something fundamentally wrong here. Namely, that the disk didn't fill up with the file being downloaded while I was moving another file off of it. And the file being downloaded was both truncated and corrupted as a result. Is there some sort of bug in the filesystem? -- * From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | "You know I never knew Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so 37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange..." Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)