Re: zero length files

Hello,

Has anyone ever seen a problem where the filer showed zero length files? We had some problem (of course this happened while I was out)

This appears to have happend while doing a restore to a 99% full volume, but I can't really know the exact sequence of events.

Thanks

Steve Darragh

A restore proceeds in several passes. In one pass all the directories and files are "pre-created". The files are all zero length because they have no data yet. Then in a later pass the file data is read from the dump and written to the files. So if you ran out of space or aborted the restore you would probably have a lot of zero length files leftover.

Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640

University of Virginia ITC Unix Support