Subject: Re: Testers needed: possible problem in "filecore" filesystem
To: Steve Hobbs <ee95seh@brunel.ac.uk>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 04/08/1999 14:45:02
ee95seh@brunel.ac.uk said:
> Also, has anybody else noticed problems copying from unixfs mounted
> ffs partitions onto filecore? My machine seems to drop the odd byte
> here and there, usually replacing them with garbage. Not a huge
> problem with textfiles, but with binary files???

Yes, I've seen this once when I was transferring some text files.  I can't 
remember the details but when I subsequently tried to transfer a gzipped 
tar file it worked without a hitch (and since gzip files are checksummed I 
guess there were no problems with the transfer).

Richard.