Subject: Re: Using unixfs to transfer sets, extracts from new instatllation
To: Scott Stevens <s.k.stevens@ic.ac.uk>
From: Chris Gilbert <cg110@york.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/12/1997 10:38:30
On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Scott Stevens wrote:

> Chris Gilbert writes:
>  > 
>  > Yes on there own they're fine the problem occurs in the 2nd and subsequent
>  > files.
>  > 
>  > > Does anybody have an idea? Is the unixfs module a bit buggy?
>  > 
>  > I think this is a known bug, if it's not I can dig out the progs I did to
>  > look at the files, it always occurs at the same point as well IRC 
> 
> Hmmm. Interesting. Could you chuck me a few details...

I'll dig out the programs and some info tonight, send it on tomorrow
(Thursday)

>  > just copy files one at a time out of unixfs and you're safe.
>  > 

Having played around a bit more it appears that single tasking copying
works fine, so the problem must be in reading parts of files.  Although
until I've looked more closely I can't be certain.

Chris Gilbert