On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:33:38PM +0300, Matti J. Karki wrote: > On 5/13/06, Paul Schenkeveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello, > > > >When I try to copy a large (7GB+) file from one filesystem to another the > >copy is not equal to te source file. This behaviour can be reproduced > >repeatedly. > > > >Details: > > > > - FreeBSD 6-STABLE, cvsupped yesterday > > Hi! > > I have very similar problem with my i386 6.1-STABLE installation. With > 6.0 there were no problems. I have already eliminated bad hardware > (memory, hard drive) and also overheating. I'm able to reproduce the > problem with quite small files. 23 megabytes has been enough to get > corrupted. I have softupdates enabled and the disk is an IDE drive. > > There however is one small difference compared to your situation. I > had a Java package in the root partition and after upgrading from 6.0 > to 6.1 I reinstalled the package. The package was corrupted even > though I had used that same package before to install the Java > run-time to the 6.0 successfully. I haven't touched the file in any > way between the installations. I also has experienced multiple > corruptions while copying files. Usually I have to copy a single large > file three or four times to get it without problems. With smaller > files (less than 20 megs), there hasn't been any problems. > > Next I'm going to downgrade my installation back to the 6.0 and see if > the problem will go away. > > I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has experienced same sort of > problems with 6.1.
It is almost certainly to do with your specific hardware configuration, or a nonstandard disk-related kernel option you are using. Please specify your configuration in detail so others can compare. Kris
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