Random truncated files on USB hard disk with timeouts; how to debug?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <20161019080005.GD93031 at nuvolo>, Arrigo Marchiori writes:

>> If the drive has bad power supply, that may not happen.
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>Yes, I understand. But, forgive me for insisting: there is an
>inconsistency that is _at filesystem level_ and _temporary_, and this
>really puzzles me.

Because the drive returns wrong data every so often and when
power is better returns correct data ?

End-to-End arguments in system design applies here:

Either you trust your drive, or you check everything it tells you
(ie: RAID with parity, ZFS or similar).

The only middle way is prayer.


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