Running FreeBSD 4.8 (and in the past have run versions of FreeBSD on this current server going back to 4.3 iirc)
Samba 2.2.8a (in the past have run previous versions)
Computer is a Athlon, with a highpoint raid controller, with 2 WD harddrives
RAID: ar0 Master: ad4 <WDC WD1200JB-00CRA0/16.06V16> ATA/ATAPI rev 5 Master: ad6 <WDC WD1200JB-00CRA0/16.06V16> ATA/ATAPI rev 5
The entire system lives on this raid, with about 100GB being shared via Samba and Netatalk. All clients are XP and 2K.
My problem is that, sporadically, files living on the Samba share seem to become corrupted. I've noticed this especially with large installer files and large compressed files used by installers. for instance, I was doing network installs of MS Office off the Samba share. I installed Office on two new computers fine, and on the third computer I get an error that Office1.cab (a roughly 290MB file) is corrupt. The file changed--I copy it from the CD to the share again and the install goes fine the next time i try it. the md5 of the two files is different so I'm absolutely sure that the file definitely changed. It went corrupt again after another install.
As another example, I had a mozilla installer sitting in a directory on the share--no one but me would have touched it. Last used ~1 month ago. Tried it today and it was corrupt.
I personally have only seen corruption in files of this type (installers specifically) and am not sure if any other corruption exists. I've had no complaints whnich is a good thing, and we regularly move a large volume of files on and off the share via Netatalk (Quark and graphic files) and they don't seem to get corrupt either. PC usage is generally less intensive and limited to word files (I'm the only person that would be installing stuff off the samba share)
I should note that I don't believe the harddisks are bad--this server has been very stable and never goes down except for power outages. I've noticed no corruption in any system files, or any files stored anywhere but on this one share.
I should also add that I have a second smaller share (~2GB) on which our accounting software runs--due to our accounting software requirements, it has all oplocks turned off, and as far as i know there have been no corruption issues.
Does anyone have a clue what the problem might be, or what I can test? The problem with this is that it IS a sporadic problem, but it's happened to me enough times that I'm sure it's real.
thanks much, Scott
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