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Re: corrupted RCS-files with x0
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: corrupted RCS-files with x0 |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:17:07 -0500 (EST) |
Claudia Peter writes:
>
> we moved our cvs-server from solaris to linux and since then we got
> corrupted RCS-files. The symptoms are always the same: in the *,v-file
> are after the "desc @@" are a lot of x0 (the number of x0 changes).
That certainly *sounds* like the typical NFS corruption -- if you dump
the repository file, is the string of zeros an integral number of disk
blocks long and on a block boundary? (Disk blocks are usually 512 or
1024 bytes long.) If so, then there's almost certainly a serious bug in
the relevant file system code or the disk subsystem.
> The files get corrupted when checking out or
> tagging.
Checkout doesn't modify the repository file so it's impossible for
checkout to *cause* corruption, although it will certainly report it if
it exists.
> Any hint will be helpfull
If you can reproduce the problem, it would be helpful to see a
repository file both before and after the corruption.
-Larry Jones
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