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>
>I got the most amazing file system error today;
>
>WARNING!!!DATA READ FROM FILE IN QUARANTINE  (FSWARN 516) : error [516]
>
>This is coming out of Speedware, so I don't have a lot of control, but does
>anyone have any idea what it may be?
>

A file is quarantined on 5.5 when subsystem dump is enabled and a
problem with the structures related to an open file is encountered.
A subsystem dumpfile is created and the file is then quarantined, which
allows only READ access to the file.

FSCHECK has 2 new commands on 5.5:

QPURGE -- will purge file objects in quarantine
QDISPLAY -- will display information regarding file objects in
            quarantine.

Other than reading the data and creating a new file, I don't believe
the original file can ever be made write-accessible again.

All of this is designed to allow a more resilient system and reduce
the number of system aborts, where possible.

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