Definition of a "broken file"

lacabessa · Post by **lacabessa** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:17 am

Hi,

Could you anyone explain to me please what is a "broken hashed file".

thanks

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:22 am

In what context?

I would think that 'broken' equates to 'corrupted', but I'd be curious where you saw this phrase.

kduke · Post by **kduke** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:34 am

Broken is corrupt on a certain level. A hash file is broken down into groups of records. The way Universe deals with these records there are linked list at a very low level. One record points to the start of the next record or the end of itself depending how you want to look at it. Normally when a hash file become broken or unuseable these links point to some place outside what the OS says is the end of the file. UVFIXFILE can repair these but sometimes will lose a record because it cannot figure out where it started. It can also lose all the records in the group from that point forward. UVFIXFILE is not as safe as some might think. Most of us have ways to rebuild any hash file so it is not an issue. If this hash file is DS_JOBOBJECTS or one of its indexes then it is a more serious problem.

lacabessa · Post by **lacabessa** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:48 am

Thanks guys. Yes kduke that clarified things for me.

Have a nice day