Why don't you see which byte differs, and how it does? Maybe that would suggest the "failure mode". Is it the same byte data in all affected files, for instance?
Mark Sent from my iPhone On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Robert Watzlavick <rob...@watzlavick.com> wrote: > On Oct 22, 2011, at 13:14, Edward Ned Harvey > <opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >>> >> How can you outrule the possibility of "something changed the file." >> Intentionally, not as a form of filesystem corruption. > > I suppose that's possible but seems unlikely. One byte on a file changed on > the disk with no corresponding change in the mod time seems unlikely. I did > access that file for read sometime I'm the past few months but again, if it > had accidentally been written to, the time would have been updated. >> >> If you have snapshots on your ZFS filesystem, you can use zhist (or whatever >> technique you want) to see in which snapshot(s) it changed, and find all the >> unique versions of it. 'Course that will only give you any valuable >> information if you have different versions of the file in different >> snapshots. >> > I only have one or two snapshots but I'll look. > > Thanks, > -Bob > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
