Re: Undo aic7xxx changes (now rc7+aic20030603)

Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-06-24T23:29:29Z

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:03:31 +0200
Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:26:09PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
>
> > sorry, you probably misunderstood my flaky explanation. What I meant was
> > not a cached block from the _tape_ (obviously indeed a char-type device)
> > but from the 3ware disk (i.e. the other side of the verification). Consider
> > the tape completely working, but the disk data corrupt (possibly not from
> > real reading but from corrupted cache).
>
> 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
?

Regards,
Stephan