Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 22:10:12 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Matti J. Karki" <mjk@iki.fi> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reproducable file corruption on 6-STABLE Message-ID: <20060514021012.GA61053@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1b15366e0605131033w3c0ddc58t563ccecdf8745ae8@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060512235959.GA18154@psconsult.nl> <1b15366e0605131033w3c0ddc58t563ccecdf8745ae8@mail.gmail.com>
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--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:33:38PM +0300, Matti J. Karki wrote: > On 5/13/06, Paul Schenkeveld <fb-stable@psconsult.nl> wrote: > >Hello, > > > >When I try to copy a large (7GB+) file from one filesystem to another the > >copy is not equal to te source file. This behaviour can be reproduced > >repeatedly. > > > >Details: > > > > - FreeBSD 6-STABLE, cvsupped yesterday >=20 > Hi! >=20 > I have very similar problem with my i386 6.1-STABLE installation. With > 6.0 there were no problems. I have already eliminated bad hardware > (memory, hard drive) and also overheating. I'm able to reproduce the > problem with quite small files. 23 megabytes has been enough to get > corrupted. I have softupdates enabled and the disk is an IDE drive. >=20 > There however is one small difference compared to your situation. I > had a Java package in the root partition and after upgrading from 6.0 > to 6.1 I reinstalled the package. The package was corrupted even > though I had used that same package before to install the Java > run-time to the 6.0 successfully. I haven't touched the file in any > way between the installations. I also has experienced multiple > corruptions while copying files. Usually I have to copy a single large > file three or four times to get it without problems. With smaller > files (less than 20 megs), there hasn't been any problems. >=20 > Next I'm going to downgrade my installation back to the 6.0 and see if > the problem will go away. >=20 > I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has experienced same sort of > problems with 6.1. It is almost certainly to do with your specific hardware configuration, or a nonstandard disk-related kernel option you are using. Please specify your configuration in detail so others can compare. Kris --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEZpGEWry0BWjoQKURAtgfAKCrdhwDh4R95JZ/c7iX+EZ+bP0yFwCgrTK7 FzJ93TkO/4B3ok0PLndoayE= =twE1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--
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