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I was at UCB during this time. Very exciting! Here's a story people may not know: The dump program, once the FFS was deployed, had not been modified to backu
by e40 3y ago
I was at UCB during this time. Very exciting! Here's a story people may not know:
The dump program, once the FFS was deployed, had not been modified to backup the last fragment of a file (because it was smaller, possibly than 4k). There was a disk crash on the VAX with the BSD source code and the disk company (Ampex, I think) came out and meticulously scrapped the bits off the disk, so CSRG could recovered the source code. There was no complete backup of it anywhere else.
That was a fun, early lesson in "test your backups".
- dekhn 3y agoI worked at UCB about 20 years later and when running network cable in the drop ceiling (because the UCB network was so slow) I came across an old thicknet cable labelled CSRG and was told "don't cut that- you never know who might be using it".