Good Catch Karl! Light bulb went off... Yes it truncates the group, not the file. I remember Mark talking that if a file is tremendously undersized and has lots of overflow groups, the damage would be more severe. Really makes sense now. Steve
>Correction, you should only see loss of data after the BLINK error in he >affected group only. >Karl Pearson >Senior uniVerse DBA and one who cut his teeth fixing blinks by hand >(thanks to Mark Baldridge and Joel Yates). <quote who="Stephen O'Neal"> > Anmol, > >...When they fix the file, the file will be truncated at > the group where this occurred. This can be anywhere in the file, because > the group extended for overflow can be anywhere in the file. You may end > up with a file that is considerably smaller than your original file! > > A wake up call for others: Watch out for your 2gb file limits on static > files. > > Good luck in recovering your data! > > Regards, > Steve > > "Anmol Chandrakant Khopade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > > I am receiving the following error: > > Computed blink of 0xB44 does not match expected blink of 0x0! > > Detected within group starting at address 0x80000000! > > Internal data error. > > ... > > Warm regards > > Anmol ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
