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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fs administration: how do people update multi-user fs?
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In-Reply-To: <11f738f5d2a818ed41e56c96688f8196@plan9.bell-labs.com>; from Russ Cox on Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:18:09AM -0500
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 17:29:22 +0200
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:18:09AM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
>
> In no case should you end up with files owned by rob or by none.
>
In the more general case of unwinding an archive such as tar files,
I'm sure I've had situations where a non-existent user was translated
to "none".

But I've had so many dicky installations of Plan 9, from 2ed to the
present, that I could have been hoisting myself on my own petard.
Still, I have seen odd situations, so I'm sure the warning is not
unjustified.

++L