[Info-vax] 8.4 freespace-drift problem?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <mjmq1j$oo1$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> >> In the last 20 years or so I have never seen this much freespace drift on
> >> my hobbyist systems.
> >>
> >> The problem (at least so far) has been only on the system disk with 8.4.
> >>
> >
> > Why am I so happy that I'm still running V8.3 ????
> 
> You have no reason to be happy. Upgrade. 8.4 is "better".
> 
> Phillips issues as desribed above has of course nothing
> with 8.4 as such to do.

Why not?  This, and the DECwindows problem, were not there with 7.3-2 
and are there with 8.4.