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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Link takes a bit to be active – it’s there now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org> on behalf of "Sobey, Richard A" <r.sobey@imperial.ac.uk><br>
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<b>Date: </b>Friday, February 2, 2018 at 10:44 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"'gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org'" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] FW: FLASH: IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS): Undetected corruption of archived sparse files (Linux) (2018.02.02)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailOriginalBody">The link goes nowhere – can anyone point us in the right direction?<o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> FLASH: IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS): Undetected corruption of archived sparse files (Linux) (2018.02.02)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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