Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264968AbTFYT2E (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:28:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264972AbTFYT2E (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:28:04 -0400 Received: from mail.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.8]:45327 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264968AbTFYT2A (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:28:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:42:21 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Willy Tarreau Cc: willy@w.ods.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, kpfleming@cox.net, stoffel@lucent.com, gibbs@scsiguy.com, green@namesys.com Subject: Re: Undo aic7xxx changes (now rc7+aic20030603) Message-Id: <20030625214221.2cd9613f.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030625191655.GA15970@alpha.home.local> References: <20030509150207.3ff9cd64.skraw@ithnet.com> <41560000.1055306361@caspian.scsiguy.com> <20030611222346.0a26729e.skraw@ithnet.com> <16103.39056.810025.975744@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20030613114531.2b7235e7.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030625191655.GA15970@alpha.home.local> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1185 Lines: 28 On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:16:55 +0200 Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:43:53AM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > > Ah, OK ! I didn't understand this. You're right, this is also a > > > possibility. Perhaps a tar cf - /mnt/3ware | chkblk would get evidence of > > > somme corruption? > > > > Hm, probably a dumb question: does repeated tar'ing of the same files lead > > to exactly the same archive? There is no timestamp inside or something > > equivalent? > > Hmmm no, you're right, I forgot about this case. I think that access time or > other time-dependant informations may change often enough to make a big diff > on checksums. I have no more idea at the moment. Or perhaps tar to a disk > file instead of the tape and check that file :-/ I have tried that already but never managed to get verification errors on tar archives written to disk. Maybe I try again some more... Regards, Stephan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/