I'm surprised too.  If the system is still in this state could you remind
me about passwords (don't cc the list!) and can I have look?

We had a strange "rm" bug here yesterday too.  Sometimes it would return
EIO. 

Peter

On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, the prophet wrote:

> I was testing my incremental backup code, trying out various scenarios of
> renaming/deleting/modifying files between backups, when this happened:
> 
> [triffid:12:48pm]/coda > ls
> thingy  users/
> [triffid:12:48pm]/coda > rm thingy 
> rm: remove `thingy'? y
> rm: thingy: No such file or directory
> [triffid:12:49pm]/coda > cat thingy 
> Here's a test file!
> 
> This was a somewhat unpleasant surprise, to say the least.  Anybody have
> some idea of what is going on here?  I'm 99% sure that taking dumps of the
> volume does not change it at all; even if it did, I'm confused as to how
> ls and cat see the file, but rm doesn't.  
> 
> -Eli Daniel
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