Re: BTRFS/EXT4 Data Corruption

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Jul 02 2020 - 17:16:34 EST


Hi!

> After alot of fiddling around it turned out that the problem goes away if
> doing "cp --sparse=never"
> when copying the files. This would to me exclude any hardware errors and
> feels more like something
> deeper inside the kernel.

If files contain random data, they are never sparse. It is strange
that sparse=never would make any difference.

> The box runs Kernel 3.10.105. Version >4 seems unaffected (not 100%
> confirmed, too few testboxes).

I'm afraid relevant developers will not be willing to debug 3.10
kernel.

Best regards,
Pavel
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