On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:21:27AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade my prep box to the latest 3.0 RC1 binary build,
> and I noticed something.
> 
> I booted the kernel with the 2.0.2 userland still intact. This worked.
> 
> I noticed some different stuff, so I wanted to pull the kernel configs
> from the 2.0.2 kernel and the 3.0 RC1 kernel and compare them. So I
> used this command straight from the options man page:
> 
> strings netbsd | sed -n 's/^_CFG_//p' | unvis
> 
> Except I redirected that to a file:
> 
> strings netbsd | sed -n 's/^_CFG_//p' | unvis > /root/kernconf.2.0.2
> 
> Now, for the weird part.
> 
> The directory that I redirected the file into suddenly behaves as if
> it has no files in it. That is, ls shows nothing:
> 
> root@bugs:/root # ls /root
> root@bugs:/root #
> 
> If I reboot, it comes back.
> 
> What? How can this be happening?

On what kind of disk system is it ?

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