Re: copying files with cp

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

address@hidden wrote:
> Copying a file of about 700kb inside a "-o loop device" of a ext2
> filesystem
> i have had a problem.
> One byte changes (in an arbitrary position) from 0xe0 to 0xa0.
> Very strange.
> I verify it with Hexdiff.
> I execute again the same command and it doesn't happen.
> 
> kernelversion 2.4.18
> redhat 7.3
> 
> cp (fileutils) 4.1
> Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
> Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> WHY?

Weird. Can you post the minimum set of commands, so that we can try to
reproduce this problem?

Have you tried running with a later version of the Linux kernel? It's up to
2.4.21, if I remember correctly.

Bye, Rich =]

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