Re: Files disappear

[cherborth@semprini.waterloo-rdp.on.ca (Chris Herborth)]

In <H.ekBL.vB3osDJpt&Y@icon.pp.se>, you write:
>> I did not start up MultiTOS for weeks. But as I can see the files with
>> the mupfel's built in ls, it really seems to be a bug in minixfs or
>> MiNT. I don't beleive it's a bug in the fileutils-port, since neither
>> 'echo *' nor tcsh's built in 'ls-F' see the files.
>
>The problem COULD be that MiNTLibs defines the maximum size of a filename
>to 32 chars. Maybe running programs compiled with MiNTLibs on partitions
>with n=4 (62 char filenames) screws up the internal structures? If this
>is true then it explains the problems with fileutils and tcsh.
>
>Could someone with knowledge about this check it out, please!

Hey... this sounds very possible.  My Minix partition was built with
n=4...  How about you, knarf?

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