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- Number: A2TH081390U295
- Subject: Reducing Number of Directory Entries May Lose Data
- Date: September 12, 1990
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- PROBLEM: A customer downed a NetWare 286 v2.15 server to change
- open files from 244 to 500. At the same time she decided
- to reduce the directory entries on the volume from 10,000
- to 7,000. When she brought it back up she discovered that
- all the files in several subdirectories were gone. 7,000
- was still 3,000 more files than what she had.
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- SOLUTION: The answer is found on page 20 of "NetWare Application
- Notes - June 1990". Basically, when directory entries
- are filled they are filled sequentially. When they are
- deleted it leaves holes in the table. The problem
- occurs if a volume has ever had more than the maximum
- directory entries defined in NETGEN (this includes files,
- directories and trustee privileges). When you run NETGEN
- to reduce directory entries, NETGEN will simply truncate
- the directory blocks at the end of the table; it does not
- check if they are in use. VREPAIR can generally restore
- the files to the root with names like VF000000.000.
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- This problem has been reported to Engineering.
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- (X) This information was verified by Engineering.
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