Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:28:02 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression? |
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Francois Romieu wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette <holger@wizards.de> : > [...] >> Maybe turning off sendfile or NAPI just lead to random success - so far it >> really looks like tso on the r8169 is the common cause. > > TSO on the r8169 is the magic switch but the regression makes imvho more > sense from a VM pov: > > - the corrupted file has the same size as the expected file > - the corrupted file exhibits holes which come as a multiple of 4096 bytes > (8*4k, 2 places, there may be more) ...
That's interesting. I had the those exact same symptoms here with copying data to/from a USB stick recently. But that stick died completely shortly thereafter, so this was written-off as "bad hardware".
Strange that you see the same symptoms from a different scenario. Probably no relationship there, but ..
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