Sorry about the problems.  The corrupt tar images in parts of the SLS
area were only with the tsx-11 mirror, the funet and sunsite mirrors
were OK.

The problem was caused by blocks going bad on the disk that the tsx-11
mirror is stored on.  These were patched but, unfortunetly, the blocks
ended up null (all zeros).  The unix disk checker, fsck, does not
check the contents of files so the problem went undetected.

We hope to move to brand new disks at the end of the month,
touch-wood.
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Lee McLoughlin.                          Phone: +44 71 589 5111 X 5085
Dept of Computing, Imperial College,     Fax: +44 71 581 8024
180 Queens Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, UK.    Email: L.McLoughlin@doc.ic.ac.uk