On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:52:43AM -0500, Chris Tooley wrote:
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> We're running a point of sale system on Linux and have put the data on
> an XFS partition. Unfortunately there has been consistent corruption of
> the data during writes to the database. Since the database is an ISAM
> database, it's all stored in files that are opened and closed a lot.
> The vendor of the point of sale is blaming XFS for the corruption. The
> application is an old COBOL app that is using the binary compatability
> modules to run. Are there any known problems with corruption when using
> these binary compatability libraries with 1.1?
Are you using IDE drives? I know there are problems with some IDE drives
caching data incorrectly, which causes corruption in the event of a power
failure.
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