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SubjectRe: torrent hash failures since 3.9.0-rc1
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 08:17:53PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2013.03.11 at 18:18 +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > I get hash failures on "completed" torrents since 3.9.0-rc1 (Linux 3.8
> > seems to be fine). What happens is that the torrents apparently complete
> > successfully. After reboot however the hash check fails and there are
> > missing (or corrupted) chunks. I've tested this with two different
> > clients (rtorrent and aria2c) and both are affected. So I think this
> > might be a filesystem issue.
> >
> > /dev/sda ext4 1.4T 666G 640G 51% /var
> > /dev/sda on /var type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)
> >
> > I use ECC memory (and there is nothing in the logs).
>
> To reproduce this issue just do the following:
>
> % wget http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-12-gnome-cd-nocodecs-64bit.iso.torrent
> % rtorrent linuxmint-12-gnome-cd-nocodecs-64bit.iso.torrent
> (Wait until the torrent finishes)
> % sudo echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> (Rehash the torrent (Ctrl-R))
> The torrent doesn't rehash successfully and a few hunks are
> missing/corrupted and need to be downloaded again.

Worked fine for me on two separate machines. Could it be a network problem
perhaps ? If something is mangling the packet before it hits the disk,
that would explain it. What NIC do you use ?

Or maybe you could isolate it to a filesystem problem using something
like fsx ?

Dave



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