Lance Grover wrote:
I am having an interesting problem on a couple of servers, after putting files on it, especially if they are not plain text, we get file corruption. The servers are high end Tyan motherboards, Xeon procs, 4GB mem, 3ware 9000 series RAID cards with SATA 250GB drives (16 total). We are running samba-3.0.10-1.fc2 (samba 3.0.10 on FedoraCore2). On friday, we put some files (5GB worth) on this box, and 2 hours latter some of the files were corrupt, I should say that our windows boxes have McAfee 8Oi running on them. We then restored the files from the last backup and all the files worked, then 2-3 hours latter they would not open again. We had been using the files on a different samba server (same version and OS, just PATA drives with a raid controller that looks like scsi to the hardware), and there were no issues and they were on that box for about 2 weeks. The only difference between the two boxes seems to be the hardware, even the kernels are the same (2.6.5-1.358smp), also the only difference in the smb.conf file is that the one server that corrupts the files has "encrypt passwords = yes" and the one that does not corrupt does not.
Are these systems running in a 1 or 2U rackmount case with a riser card? If so I happen to know that there are issues with some riser cards that don't have resistors on them. It's actually a problem with the 3ware cards being a little too touchy, but certain risers will fix the problem. I can get you information on them if this sounds like the issue.
-Blake
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