Re: XFS file corruption bug ?

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:22:35PM -0600, James Foris wrote:

> First the partition was zeroed ("dd if=dev/zero of=/dev/md0 ....."),
> then a known pattern was written in 516K files (4K + 2 x 256K).  The
> partition (~140 GBytes) was filled to 98%, then the partition was
> first unmounted, then remounted.

If you fill the disk with a know pattern first (say 0xAA) and then
write a different pattern down (say 0x55) it would be good to know if
you get zeros back or the 'wrong' data.

Is it possible to try that?