Re: Massive e2fs corruption with 2.2.9/10?

Brian (signal@shreve.net)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:36:29 -0500 (CDT)

> At some point I started experiencing problems with copying large (tens of
> MB) files. Small files (<1MB) copied quite OK. With big ones, the copy
> just differed from original. What's curious, memtest showed no errors on
> that computer, Windows also ran without problems with those SIMMs. I
> replaced faulty SIMMs with ECC ones, and I don't have any such problems
> for more than a year (knocking on wood)

I have seen similar things. I wish their was a very good and reliable
memory testing routing that could report with high accuracy. I have used
"memory march" type programs which take a very long time when testing
512-1024MB of memory and they would come up clean yet their was definite
memory corruption going on.

>
> HTH, Kastus
>
> >
> >
> > Harald
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