Hello. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 =] -- Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ] "You can't evaluate a man by logic alone." -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", Star Trek _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
