Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-08-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Martin Steigerwald Martin at lichtvoll.de writes: Hi Mark, Could you please try it that way: snip to make really obnoxious Gmane submission rules satisfied If the issue does not trigger with zeros, then use sha1sum your database backup file and then copy it and sha1sum it again.

Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-08-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 schrieb Mark Fletcher: Ahoy the list! Hi Mark, I use a Buffalo 4TB NAS using RAID which I mount from my Debian Wheezy AMD64 running on a self-built Intel Core i7 920-based machine. I want to be able to read and write the NAS from the Linux machine with minimum

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:15:28 + (UTC) Mark Fletcher mark2...@gmail.com wrote: ... compatibility. I have heard of people wresting their NAS out of the grasp of the OS it comes with and installing Linux on it, presumably by mucking about with firmware etc, but I have never attempted to do

Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
Joe joe at jretrading.com writes: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:50:14 +0900 Mark Fletcher mark27q1 at gmail.com wrote: It looks like what got stored on the NAS is not exactly what was originally on the host. This is a huge problem for me as it means I can't rely on backups dumped on that

Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-07-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120730_065640, Mark Fletcher wrote: Joe joe at jretrading.com writes: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:50:14 +0900 Mark Fletcher mark27q1 at gmail.com wrote: It looks like what got stored on the NAS is not exactly what was originally on the host. This is a huge problem for me as

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120730_122543, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120730_065640, Mark Fletcher wrote: Joe joe at jretrading.com writes: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:50:14 +0900 Mark Fletcher mark27q1 at gmail.com wrote: It looks like what got stored on the NAS is not exactly what was

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/07/12 04:09 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120730_122543, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120730_065640, Mark Fletcher wrote: Joejoeat jretrading.com writes: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:50:14 +0900 Mark Fletchermark27q1at gmail.com wrote: It looks like what got stored on the NAS is not

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
Paul E Condon pecondon at mesanetworks.net writes: Having posted this, which I thought was reasonable, I went and looked at the archives to see what OP (Mark Fletcher) had written. It turns out that all of his investigation was done using commands typed in as root. For me, this thread is a

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Mark Fletcher wrote: Paul E Condon pecondon at mesanetworks.net writes: Having posted this, which I thought was reasonable, I went and looked at the archives to see what OP (Mark Fletcher) had written. It turns out that all of his investigation was done using

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org writes: Well... there is an awlful lot of CIFS and NFS-related fixes in the kernel stable queue. Check that. Also make sure it is not your NIC driver or memory (or the NAS' memory) that went bad... I wondered about this too -- and the

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 31/07/12 13:15, Mark Fletcher wrote: Paul -- The NAS is a Buffalo LinkStation 4TB NAS configured to do RAID giving me 2TB of storage. I bought myself it for Christmas from Amazon.co.jp (I live in Japan) at Christmas 2010. I don't know what OS it will be running but doubt it will be Linux

Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-07-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/07/12 12:50 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: Ahoy the list! I use a Buffalo 4TB NAS using RAID which I mount from my Debian Wheezy AMD64 running on a self-built Intel Core i7 920-based machine. I want to be able to read and write the NAS from the Linux machine with minimum fuss. I also run a

Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-07-29 Thread Joe
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:50:14 +0900 Mark Fletcher mark2...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like what got stored on the NAS is not exactly what was originally on the host. This is a huge problem for me as it means I can't rely on backups dumped on that device. Is there something wrong with the way