From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 3 10:06:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B560916A401 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:06:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from mgedv.at (mail.mgedv.at [195.3.87.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9AA43D45 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:06:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from metis (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mgedv.at (SMTPServer) with ESMTP id 62FA6186864 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:06:15 +0200 (MEST) From: "No@SPAM@mgEDV.net" To: Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:06:18 +0200 Message-ID: <00a701c65706$40a58f10$0a86a8c0@avalon.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Thread-index: AcZXBkBs4RnViGehQESv2g4K51aV/w== Subject: GELI/UFS: strange data corruption X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: nospam@mgedv.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:06:17 -0000 hi, the environment: - Intel Server w 1 x XEON 2.8 / 2GB - HW-RAID1 (Intel SRCS16 w 2xSeagate NL35 400GB) - FreeBSD 6.1-BETA4 - GELI encryption of whole amrd0 with Sector-Size 4096 - ufs2 filesystems w Softupdates and Sector-Size 4096 the source: - SuSE 8.2 reiserfs (3.6?) filesystem mounted ro the target: - the ufs2 fs mentioned above content: 300GB what happened: created a geli-device with AES256 on amrd0 setup 3 partitions with bsdlabel on it: amrd0.elia: 4096MB BSD-rootfs amrd0.elib: 4096MB swap amrd0.elib: ~350GB data (the rest of the sectors) installed bsd w boot from usb-drive (because of geli) kernel/bootloader on USB root-fs get's mounted from HDD tried copying the data from the reiserfs disk using cd /olddata && find . | sort -n | cpio -pdvum /newdata this step took 9hrs to complete. the problem: the count of files is exactly the same cpio/syslog/dmesg logged absolutely no errors (not even warnings) the files contain almost the same data, but at the beginning and at the end of the files there is content mixed up from other files that have been copied! i compared plain-text files as well as binary files (database, executables) and they ALL differ. not even 1 file is binary the same! any ideas!? br & cu...