On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:12:16PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
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> On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 10:52, Chris Tooley wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> I am not aware of any specific corruption issues in 1.1, I know
> nothing of the 'binary compatibility modules you are referring
> to. Is this for running things like a.out binaries?
Suspect he refers to the iBCS/Linux ABI patches for SCO etc. emulation.
Christoph should know more about it, he used to maintain that stuff.
I doubt it can cause specific data corruption thought - read/write
should be directly handed through to the linux implementations because
there is not much to emulate there.
>
> Do you have any information about the pattern of the corruption, or
> the types of I/O being done to the files?
Point-Of-Sale sounds like it'll be often power cycled without proper
shutdown. This could cause problems if the HD does write buffer a lot of data
on its own. I would try applying the ordered writing patches or at least
turn off the write cache of the HD.
-Andi
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