From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 13 13:10: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8625E37B725 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:09:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2DL9t681940; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:09:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010313160236.03ff3980@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:03:56 -0500 To: Christopher Farley From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: 2GB limit on gzip? Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010313150705.A86402@northernbrewer.com> References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010313134412.040e25e0@marble.sentex.ca> <20010312165812.A82168@northernbrewer.com> <20010312173441.A25752@dan.emsphone.com> <20010312195330.A82645@northernbrewer.com> <20010312213743.A7606@dan.emsphone.com> <20010312223210.A83134@northernbrewer.com> <20010313104513.A85546@northernbrewer.com> <5.0.2.1.0.20010313134412.040e25e0@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This sounds like some hardware issue (disk controller or memory). Post a dmesg to the list. ---Mike At 03:07 PM 3/13/01 -0600, Christopher Farley wrote: >Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) wrote: > > What if you create a big file, do an md5 checksum, copy it to another > > location, and compare the md5 ? > >They sometimes differ! I have tested this on two different filesystems >(two different disks, in fact), and I occasionally get different md5 >hashes. > >-- >Christopher Farley >www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message