On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:33:44PM +0000, Thomas Charles Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 16:30, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:36:46AM +0000, Thomas Charles Robinson wrote:
> > > [an excellently clear, concise, and complete [1] problem report

Oops, I forgot to type the footnote :-)
[1] "concise and complete" might sound like an oxymoron, but it's
    not.

> > I'm wondering about the possibility that two independent
> > sources of data corruption -- NFS and the tape subsystem -- might
> > be confounding your attempts to isolate "the" problem.
> 
> I was trying all the manual checks before I started using the nfs
> volume. Although it may be a factor I'm prepared to continue using the
> volume at this stage

Agreed.  That you were experiencing the problem when explicitly
checking local holding-disk files, pretty much does in my
hypothesis.  I won't rule out NFS problems, but that's just on
general principles (see my previous post) :-)  NFS is very likely
a red herring.

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