Re: [Sccs-devel] I may have tracked down the infamous 1984 McKusick hard drive crash

[Steffen N. <st...@sd...>]

Hello Justin.

Justin Goldberg wrote in
 <CAA...@ma...>:
 |The crash is referenced here:
 |https://sccs.sourceforge.net/sccs_vs_rcs.html
 |
 |Kirk McKusick was at UCB in 1984:
 |https://archive.is/fVnCS
 |
 |This post describes it as well, it is quoted below:
 |https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35891400
 |
 |"e40 39 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: 50 years in
 |filesystems: 1984 BSD FFS
 |
 |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".

Interesting story, the response was very funny, too.

Jörg Schilling unfortunately died on 2021-10-10, on a Sunday noon,
and one day before the first cold wave of the year arrived.
(At least here, i am about 443,59 kilometres away says Google.)

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)