Subject: Re: Using unixfs to transfer sets, extracts from new instatllation manual
To: Marc Theisen <arcmt@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de>
From: Scott Stevens <s.k.stevens@ic.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/11/1997 11:37:05
Marc Theisen writes:
 > Over the weekend I noticed that copying files from ADFS to unixfs worked, but
 > not vice versa! The problem was, that copying the files in "single mode" i.e.
 > dragging the files seperately from the unixfs filer to the ADFS filer worked.
 > But when I dragged a group of files (e.g. the whole base set) to the ADFS filer
 > window, everthing seemed to work well, but then...
 > 
 > ... running the inst script I decided to verify the sets and oh my God,
 > only base.00, base.04, base.08 and base.12 were verified ok.
 > 
 > So I did a reboot and wrote a simple utility to compare two files...
 > Then I copied some other files from the distrib directory seperately and oh wonder,
 > they were ok!
 > 
 > Does anybody have an idea? Is the unixfs module a bit buggy?

Yes, I'll eventually get round to looking into it.

 > Marc

Cheers Scott

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