Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:42:21 +0200 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: Undo aic7xxx changes (now rc7+aic20030603) |
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:16:55 +0200 Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> 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...
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