Reproducable file corruption on 6-STABLE

[Matti J. Karki]

On 5/14/06, Matti J. Karki <mjk at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 5/14/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:33:38PM +0300, Matti J. Karki wrote:
> > > On 5/13/06, Paul Schenkeveld <fb-stable at psconsult.nl> 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> OK, here comes the details.
>
> The machine is an HP laptop (Pavilion 4423EA) with Fujitsu MHT2030AT
> IDE hard drive (28615,8MB). IDE controller is "ALi M5229 PCI Bus
> Master IDE Controller" from Acer Labs Inc. The system has 1GB of RAM.
> The system itself was FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE with GENERIC kernel from the
> installation media (so, I haven't compiled anything). No weird kernel
> options in use. Hardware should be very generic all in all.
>
> Now I have a 6.0-STABLE with GENERIC kernel back (from the
> installation media, no updates, patches, no nothing) and I have
> stress-tested the system. I was not able to reproduce file corrutions
> with 6.0 even though I tried to replicate all situations excactly like
> with 6.1.
>
> I have done upgrading and downgrading by using boot-only CD and
> selecting USER installation set for upgrading.
>

Ops. I did quite a mistake describing my system. So, all along I was
talking about 6.1-RELEASE and 6.0-RELEASE. Not STABLE.


        -Matti