From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>,
Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Redundancy eliminating file systems, breaking MD5, donating money to OSDL
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:51:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040122085123.GB7249@citd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040122023609.GB4392@mail.shareable.org>
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:36:09AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> > *2: I had a direcory of about 1,5 Million images and "md5sum"med them to
> > eliminate doubles. The Log-file, at one point, had the same md5sum as
> > one of the pictures.
>
> Something similar happened to me once. Two different files with the
> same result from md5sum.
>
> When I ran md5sum again, it still reported the same results.
>
> Then when I flushed the page cache and ran it again, it reported
> different results.
>
> I concluded it was a rare page cache corruption heisenbug. Scary.
I can 100% exclude Linux-Errors. The machine (still) runs with Solaris 8.
Bis denn
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-22 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-16 20:22 [OT] Redundancy eliminating file systems, breaking MD5, donating money to OSDL Timothy Miller
2004-01-16 20:37 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-16 20:59 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-17 13:15 ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-20 19:21 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-01-21 11:46 ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-22 0:12 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-22 8:29 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-01-22 2:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-01-22 8:51 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer [this message]
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2004-01-20 18:06 Clayton Weaver
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