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Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 07:52:21 -0600
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep)
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On Thu, 13 May 2004 lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:

> Well, now that's clever.  Of course, it is obvious, too.  But can one
> rely on this?  Is there some way of detecting when things start going
> wrong?  What would the symptoms be?

you'll know. You'll get data corruption as writes fail to occur.

ron