Re: cksum giving inconsistent results on network drive

2016-03-22 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > Indeed, it is not cksum, but (almost) any Windows process that > reads data mounted on my QNX4 Samba drive, including Cygwin's > "cp", FileZilla, and Perl's File::Copy package. However, I have > not got the DOS "COPY" command to deliver

RE: cksum giving inconsistent results on network drive

2016-03-22 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Erik Soderquist > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > I'm seeing inconsistent results with cksum, with repeated > > executions on the same file giving different results. > > Now, I suspect I won't get much sympathy because I am > > accessing the remote file through

Re: cksum giving inconsistent results on network drive

2016-03-21 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Erik Soderquist! >> My first suspicion is that there is very little you can do from the >> cygwin side outside of something like doing 5 consecutive tests and >> take the most consistent result. > > Since SMB (especially in

Re: cksum giving inconsistent results on network drive

2016-03-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Erik Soderquist! > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> I'm seeing inconsistent results with cksum, with repeated >> executions on the same file giving different results. >> Now, I suspect I won't get much sympathy because I am >> accessing the remote file

Re: cksum giving inconsistent results on network drive

2016-03-21 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Nem W Schlecht wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Erik Soderquist >> I expect if you did a capture of the traffic, you'd find the traffic >> itself has inconsistent data... > > If the traffic was bad, I'd suspect the byte count to be off as well, > but if

Re: cksum giving inconsistent results on network drive

2016-03-21 Thread Nem W Schlecht
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> I'm seeing inconsistent results with cksum, with repeated >> executions on the same file giving different results. >> Now, I suspect I won't get much

Re: cksum giving inconsistent results on network drive

2016-03-21 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > I'm seeing inconsistent results with cksum, with repeated > executions on the same file giving different results. > Now, I suspect I won't get much sympathy because I am > accessing the remote file through a "stone_age_old"* > (QNX4) Samba