JimWright: - After not being able to repro the problem using a 10.04 VM with -updates applied (8 CPUs, 512MB, 20GB) using VmWare Workstation as the hypervisor on a 10.04 host, I decided to try Maverick on bare metal. I'll have a better shot at enlisting upstream help if I can demo the problem on a more recent kernel.
I did try your 'gzip' method of reading and writing, but as mentioned, could never get it to fail even on bare metal. I'm next going to see if this issue still exists on 2.6.36-rc3.
JimWright: - After not being able to repro the problem using a 10.04 VM with -updates applied (8 CPUs, 512MB, 20GB) using VmWare Workstation as the hypervisor on a 10.04 host, I decided to try Maverick on bare metal. I'll have a better shot at enlisting upstream help if I can demo the problem on a more recent kernel.
I did try your 'gzip' method of reading and writing, but as mentioned, could never get it to fail even on bare metal. I'm next going to see if this issue still exists on 2.6.36-rc3.