Massive data loss bug in leopard ...another hole

[naveen_reloaded]

Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard
November 5 th, 2007
Update: The bug occurs regardless of the type of destination being moved to (whether it's local USB, local Firewire, SMB, etc.). Also, I have been informed that this bug goes back all the way to Panther.
Update 2: Here's a video of the same thing happening to a USB drive: leopardmovebug.avi

Leopard's Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in action. I first came across it when Samba crashed while I was moving a directory from my desktop over to a Samba mount on my FreeBSD server.
I've now run tests on a Windows XP SP2 SMB mount, as well as a local HFS+ formatted USB drive, and the bug surfaces every time the destination disappears while the Finder is moving something to the destination.


http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massiv...ug-in-leopard/

[praka123]

hmm...wth?os x is not upto the expectation

[phreak0ut]

Where are the Macboys?? Will they tell, even this is a good feature? :roll eyes:

[mehulved]

Originally Posted by phreak0ut

Where are the Macboys?? Will they tell, even this is a good feature? :roll eyes:

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...5&postcount=23

[naveen_reloaded]

Yeah guys lets not call names here.lets just discuss...

[gxsaurav]

Lolz...this is even severe then the Slow file copy bug of Vista

[azzu]

^^ lol
OS X disappointing

[praka123]

this is what closed source development means both for mac or windows.
opensource Linux or BSDs fix bug asap.So OSS works!

[Gigacore]

Booooooooo... Even windows XP didnt have these many bugs

[phreak0ut]

Originally Posted by mehulved

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...5&postcount=23

Wokay wokay!

[NucleusKore]

Tragic, how will you copy then

[din]

@NucleusKore

That is not about copying, the data loss occured while moving (as per the news / source). It is safe to use copy till they fix the bug. Moving data on network - always risky. Using copy-verify-delete is better.

[NucleusKore]

Originally Posted by din

@NucleusKore

That is not about copying, the data loss occured while moving (as per the news / source). It is safe to use copy till they fix the bug. Moving data on network - always risky. Using copy-verify-delete is better.

Ok, that's right, I always avoid cut paste, copy paste is always better

[aryayush]

This has already been fixed in the 10.5.1 update recently seeded to developers by Apple. It will soon be released to the general public.