Subject: File Corruption
To: None <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ed Gould <ed@left.wing.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/17/1998 17:39:32
Has anyone seen the following symptoms? It has been suggested to me that the
ncr driver is weak, and that it may be the cause of this problem.
Configuration:
DEC Venturis GL 6200 (Pentium Pro, 200MHz)
144 MB RAM
NetBSD 1.3.1
ncr0: Diamond Fireport 40 (53C875J)
sd0: Quantum Fireball TM2110S (slow narrow)
sd1: IBM DCAS-32160W (ultra wide)
sd2: Micropolis 3391SS (ultra wide)
aha0: Adaptec 1542
st0: tape
cd0 - cd6: CDROM changer
(some other hopefully irrelevant stuff)
Problem: When I do
cd old
tar cf - . | (cd ../old; tar xpf -)
with both the "old" and "new" directories in a FFS partition of sd2, some of
the files in "new" get corrupted. In the two files I examined, the corruption
was either 8KB or 16KB, contiguous, starting on an 8K boundary. The
filesystem blocksize is 8KB.
Has this appeared before? Any thoughts? (Don't just say "run 1.3.2." I was
cloning my source tree to upgrade it to 1.3.2 when I saw the problem.)
--Ed