On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: > Jürgen Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I redownloaded the file cpartad and compared it with >> > "cmp -l" with the old file: >> > $ cmp -l cpartad cpartad.old >> > 4962108197 271 371 >> > >> > $ bc >> > ibase=10 >> > obase=2 >> > 271 >> > 100001111 >> > 371 >> > 101110011 >> > >> > It seems that 5 bits are wrong of the 23GB file transfer. >> >> The differences reported by cmp -l are in octal; >> so this is actually a single bit error. > > But then TCP checksums should discover the problem > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > [email protected] (uni) > [email protected] (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
Well if its getting read incorrectly from disk on the Linux side, it will be transmitted incorrectly as well. TCP will only checksum the transmission, which may not be at fault here. -- Brent Jones [email protected] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
