Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:51:23 +0100 | From | Matthias Schniedermeyer <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Redundancy eliminating file systems, breaking MD5, donating money to OSDL |
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:36:09AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > *2: I had a direcory of about 1,5 Million images and "md5sum"med them to > > eliminate doubles. The Log-file, at one point, had the same md5sum as > > one of the pictures. > > Something similar happened to me once. Two different files with the > same result from md5sum. > > When I ran md5sum again, it still reported the same results. > > Then when I flushed the page cache and ran it again, it reported > different results. > > I concluded it was a rare page cache corruption heisenbug. Scary.
I can 100% exclude Linux-Errors. The machine (still) runs with Solaris 8.
Bis denn
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