Re: UPDATE: VERY URGENT: "cp -a" creates mysteriously "hidden" files?!

[Jason White <jasonjgw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When I was investigating the purchase of a new computer recently and
checking for Linux compatibility, I discovered (by searching the web,
especially the linux-kernel archive) that some chip sets have been
known to cause random data corruption. This is one reason why it is a
good idea to provide hardware details with bug reports, for example by
including the output obtained by running lspci on the system as well
as the details of the main board and raid controller. According to
what I have read, some of the hardware problems can only be overcome
by disabling DMA in the kernel configuration; but fixes for the
relevant chip sets may already have been included in the kernel in any
case, so these problems may not arise with recent kernels - I don't
know.