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Date: Tue,  7 Sep 2004 17:41:38 -0400
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Alberto Cortes <alcortes@coitt.es>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] losing files with ftpfs(4)
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This is just a fundamental limitation of ftpfs.
It can't reliably try the create until it has all
the data that is supposed to be in the file.
But it doesn't know it has all the data until
the close, at which point mv will think it's
okay to remove the original.

Russ