Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:57:33 -0800 | | From | Simon Kirby <> | | Subject | Re: [2.3.99pre2] [CORRUPTION] Doh! Corruption problems again... |
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:29:18AM -0800, Simon Kirby wrote:
> I just reproduced it copying in the exact opposite direction (/dev/hdb1 > to /dev/hdc2) from the original way I reproduced it. This is from a 2K > to a 1K. Aha! I just reproduced it going from /dev/hdb4 (4K) to /dev/hdc2 > (1K), so the source blocksize does not seem to matter. I should see if I > can reformat hdc to have a 4K filesystem, I suppose... Although I'm > getting the feeling the problem might be completely independent of block > size... > > So, SMP definitely makes a difference and IDE bus definitely makes a > difference.
Oops, I didn't have /dev/hdb4 mounted at the time ("nocheck" was removed from the latest kernels and I had to do some fstab tweaking), and now when I try to reproduce it with the 4K filesystem mounted, I can't reproduce it. Previously, I reproduced it from (accidentally) /dev/hda2 (2K) copying to /dev/hdc2 (1K). I also can't reproduce it from /dev/hda4 (another 4K filesystem on the same drive as where I reproduced it before on (hda2)). So, maybe there is also a relation to 4K filesystems.
So, it seems to depend on SMP being true, copying over different IDE buses (maybe), and copying from a non-4K EXT2 filesystem (maybe).
*boggle* :)
Simon-
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