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Date:      Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:09:45 -0700
From:      Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Analysis of disk file block with ZFS checksum error
Message-ID:  <47AD1979.8020704@skyrush.com>
In-Reply-To: <47ACF338.3020802@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> it could be an old file..
> what kind of disks?

It's a Seagate ST3500630A parallel ATA drive.

> I had a scenario where 3ware controllers were just failing to write to
> a drive in the array, so old data showed through.

I have an Intel ICH4 controller - nothing unusual.

> the filesystem and the partitions and the raids all were on different
> alignments so teh only part of the system that had a boundary that 
> aligned with the bad data was the physical stripes laid down by the 
> controller.  It was 64k stripes and 64k data missing, exactly on
> stripe boundaries. Due to the fact that FreeBSD had partitioned the 
> drive staring at 63 blocks in, nothing else aligned with the problem.

Hmm, well this is a straight-forward disk situation - never used RAID on
this drive.  Give what is happening, I wonder the changes of it being
HW, OS, or a filesystem issue.

					-Joe



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