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Date:      Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:22:13 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Analysis of disk file block with ZFS checksum error
Message-ID:  <47AD2A75.8010908@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <47AD1979.8020704@skyrush.com>
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Joe Peterson wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
>> it could be an old file..
>> what kind of disks?
> 
> It's a Seagate ST3500630A parallel ATA drive.
> 
>> I had a scenario where 3ware controllers were just failing to write to
>> a drive in the array, so old data showed through.
> 
> I have an Intel ICH4 controller - nothing unusual.
> 
>> the filesystem and the partitions and the raids all were on different
>> alignments so teh only part of the system that had a boundary that 
>> aligned with the bad data was the physical stripes laid down by the 
>> controller.  It was 64k stripes and 64k data missing, exactly on
>> stripe boundaries. Due to the fact that FreeBSD had partitioned the 
>> drive staring at 63 blocks in, nothing else aligned with the problem.
> 
> Hmm, well this is a straight-forward disk situation - never used RAID on
> this drive.  Give what is happening, I wonder the changes of it being
> HW, OS, or a filesystem issue.
> 
> 					-Joe

still, see whether the 64k lines up with the drive or with
the filesystem (if the filesystem is not on an exact 64k boundary
of the drive).


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