On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:38:42PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > Ack! Corruption when only reading is certainly an unpleasant situation. > Are you sure that prior writes had been sync'd and it was the reading doing > it?
I had one case now where I could actually verify that this explains what I was seeing. I was compiling a deb package, and the md5sum in the changes file did not match the md5sum of the file after rebooting to linux. And indeed there was a hole in the deb file. Now the question is if after a sync the hole could be seen. I don't know for sure but I think so. Creating big tar files or libraries seems to be a good way to reproduce this bug. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
