From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 14 22: 3:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87E8F150ED for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 22:03:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 509 invoked by uid 100); 15 Aug 1999 05:02:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Aug 1999 05:02:28 -0000 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 22:02:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer To: Kris Kennaway Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Random disk read problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: :->> I'm getting random differences. I.e. - the diff of the md5 sums will :->> turn up a file or two that are different. Running diff or cmp on them :->> by hand - and they're the same. Likewise, running md5 on them by hand :->> turns up correct sums. :->Are any of the filesystems NFS, or some other weird (non-UFS) or :->weirdly-mounted filesystem? Most of them were UFS; one was a cd imaged on UFS mounted via vn. :->It could be a bug, or it may in fact be that you have someone on board :->trying to hide their tracks. Were there any obvious patterns in the :->binaries which were showing up (e.g. all system binaries, etc)? If it were those, I'd bevieve it.