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Re: Induced crashes



Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> writes:

> The typescript of an fsck.  A mild corruption.  A full scale corruption
> means that the floppy cannot be mounted or the network setup.  The
> typescript itself is rather scrambled.

You mention a floppy.  Are you popping the floppy out in mid-write?
The hardware has no way to guarantee atomic writes if you do that, so
I'm more interested in cases where power is halted partway through.



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