[Box Backup] Strange backup corruption

Chris Wilson boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:37:42 +0000 (GMT)


Hi Ben,

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Ben Summers wrote:

> Userland programs cannot mess up a filesystem to create files which are 
> larger than the disc they're writing to.

How about sparse files? (i agree that it's less likely than a disk/OS 
bug).

Cheers, Chris.
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