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> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > it looks like the problem gets worse currently. This is the second day I
> > see 4 verification errors. This is with kernel 2.4.22-pre2 now.
>
>
> As far as I understood, the tape is corrupting the data (or writting, or
> when reading back).
>
> Is this correct?
Actually my guess is that the _data_ itself is not corrupt, neither the
original set located on 3ware RAID nor the backup'ed set on aic-connected SDLT.
The problem is - according to my personal opinion - flawed during the readback
that occurs while verifying. I do not know if the data is already corrupted by
the aic-driver (less probable currently) or some flaw inside the caching of the
_original_ set. The situation is complex because of the multiple involved
subsystems.
My experience is this:
If you reboot and make backup/verify cycle from 3ware to aic/tape everything
seems fine.
If you reboot and push data over NFS to 3ware-disk, then do the backup/verify
cycle (with this data) from 3ware to aic/tape the corruption is very likely.
If you do try another verify run of the data you see corruptions happen on
_other_ files than the verify before. It is therefore unlikely that both data
"ends" are part of the problem, because you would expect the same corruptions
to show up - at least this is my hope.
Regards,
Stephan
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