Comment 53 for bug 453579
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| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote Re: [Bug 453579] Re: corruption of large files reported with linux 2.6.31-14.46 on ext4 | #53 |
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 20:07 +0000, John Johansen wrote:
> Since I haven't reproduced this error yet I would like to get a better
> handle on what people are seeing here. Is it file system corruption
> (errors that show up in fsck), or file corruption where fsck does not
> report any errors. Also for files that are corrupted do they have the
> correct size and is possible to run a compare between a corrupt file and
> a good file so we can get a handle on the location the corruption is
> starts.
>
The corruption is not detected by fsck.
In my testing, the files maintained the same size, but the data changed
in them. The data started being different at around 512MB into the
file.
Scott
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