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Recently, jay borkenhagen (me) wrote:

> I've been seeing the following problem since we upgraded from SunOS
> 4.0.3 to 4.1.1.  I doubt this is a VM problem per se, but so far I
> have only noticed it occurring with VM.
> 
> If I vm-save-folder ("S") and type ahead with save-some-buffers 
> ("C-x s"), I get this message in the mini-buffer:
> 
> 	IO error writing /qsun/h1/jayb/mail/INBOX
> 
> where INBOX is my current folder.  At this point the current folder
> has been expunged but not saved.  I've never noticed any problems if I
> don't type ahead.


Then kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net replied:

> We're running SunOS 4.1.1 and I recently had an I/O error writing
> my primary inbox.  The disk was local to the system in question,
> i.e. no NFS.  I, too, was using typeahead.  (I remember because I
> distinctly remember saying "Whoa!" when the error message
> appeared and was thankful that emacs discards buffer input upon
> signaling an error.)  It's hard to imagine how typeahad coould be
> causing a disk write error, but here's some at least offer
> corrobating testimony.


Now here's more info: I just received the I/O error message when my
typeahead command had nothing to do with writing to disk -- this time
while "S"aving I wanted to see the "p"revious message.  Before this
I'd only received the I/O error when I'd typed ahead to do C-x s or
something involving another write to disk.

					Jay_Borkenhagen@ATT.Com