Re: strange directory migration error !!

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From: Art Mellor
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:52

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In article <1993Jan21.111906.25514@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> wollborn@tnt.uni-hannover.de (Michael Wollborn) writes:

 >we got here a strange error on one of our Sparc 10 workstations.
 >Several directories have been migrated over night to block-type
 >and character-type special devices. The owner has been set to
 >some phantasy numbers of 12xxx or 13xxx, the date is somewhere
 >in the future (1995, 2028 and so on) and the permissions are
 >more than confused.

I have seen similar weirdness when using less than robust nfs implementations.
Do you have any "non-standard" versions of NFS mounting that machine? Like
an Apollo system running an old OS?

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