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Re: TAKE - Corruption fix.

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Subject: Re: TAKE - Corruption fix.
From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 17:40:14 -0500
References: <200005121849.NAA42742@nt8.americas.sgi.com> <391C55AE.AA03EBAA@sgi.com> <391C6667.5AAF4A80@thebarn.com> <391C727D.FF6BE468@sgi.com> <391C7987.FF7DBD7F@thebarn.com> <391C7EAF.2A101BC5@sgi.com>
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Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan wrote:

> Russell Cattelan wrote:
>
> [ For some reason, you want to communicate thorough
>   a slower mailing list. Keeping it on linux-xfs@oss ]
>
> >
> > Is the source file on disk corrupted or just cached buffer?
> > in other words if you unmount the file system and remount it is the source 
> > file still
> > corrupted?
>
> Unmount removes some corruption, but not all of it.

Hmm ok that's a read path bug then...
Where would that be comming from I wonder?

>
>
> >
> > I haven't been able to get doio to corrupt... I know jim was running with 5 
> > threads
> > successfully.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Are you running with only 64M of memory?
> >
> > no
>
> Why not? I think smaller memory configs reproduce
> corruption with greater probability. Can you atleast
> verify that you either see or don't see when you switch
> to smaller memory size?

Just haven't gotten that far yet.

OSS is taking a bit tim right now... we are trying to deply the new box by 
monday.



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