Re: Massive e2fs corruption with 2.2.9/10?

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:50:01 +0200


On Jun 17, Alan Cox wrote:

> > If I copy a large (650Mb) file to a different filename, then perform a
> > compare on them, I encounter random, different miscompares. I've seen
> > this on several 2.2.9 and 2.2.10 systems.
>
> Ok people is this
>
> SCSI or IDE (or a mix)

I'm using NCR810, no IDE at all

> What compiler was used

# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.2.10 (root@turtle) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #122 Mon Jun 14 09:09:42 MEST 1999

> I'll go try and break my hardisk

On Jun 17, Philip Gladstone wrote:

> Ahah -- when I try this with a 120MB file, I get non-random miscompares!
>
> 530> cp bigone bigtwo; cmp bigone bigtwo
> bigone bigtwo differ: char 1365812, line 13789
> 531> cp bigone bigtwo; cmp bigone bigtwo
> bigone bigtwo differ: char 24542708, line 277660

I've done some similar attempts with 110MB and 220MB files
but I had no `success' (read: no compare errors!).

btw, you always should use `cmp -l file1 file2' in order to get more information!
^^
^^

Harald

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