Re: Data corruption with checksum offloading enabled

From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3_at_amdmi3.ru>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:46:17 +0000
* Arno J. Klaassen (arno_at_heho.snv.jussieu.fr) wrote:

> > For now I have two cases of corruption - in both cases it is single
> > difference of one 128 byte block with file offsets 0x65F872 and
> > 0x61A072.
> 
> I had a similar problem last April on a 7-stable box reported
> in a 'nfs-server silent data corruption' thread.
> 
> I found :
> 
> - in all failing cases just *one* byte is currupted, 4 or all 8 bits
>   set to zero *and* the original value is one out of the limited
>   subset {1, 8, 9} ....
> 
>   here is the output of `cmp -x $i/BIG $i/BIG2` for some failing
>   cases I saved :
> 
>   03869a48 09 00
>   05209d88 09 00
>   01777148 09 00
>   00f10f88 09 00
>   01f4c4c8 11 00
>   06c3d6c8 11 00
>   0725ca48 18 00
>   01608008 09 00
>   00f3b888 18 00
> 
>   07aa45c8 29 20
> 
> Does your corruption fulfill these characterisations as well?

Nope, as I've written before, it's corruption of single 128 byte block.
I've deleted samples during the upgrade process, but I think I'll turn
*xcsum back on and do some more tests with NFS, and netcat transfers.

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