Re: File corruption with NFS client on 2.2.0-pre4
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:43:07 +0000 (GMT)
> Starting at offsets divisable by 4096, ... and extending for a random
> number of bytes, the data in the file is moved a few bytes forward.
>
> So for example the data
>
> ...xyzabcdefghijklmnop...
> ^ start of 4096 byte block
>
> becomes
>
> ...xyzXXXabcdefghijnop...
> ^ ^ some bytes are removed
> inserted a few random bytes
You need to upgrade your Solaris box. Its a Solaris bug, and this has been
confirmed by Sun. The nice Sun folks also gave the bug id
( bug id 4071076 data over length in nfs header was written to disk ).
Sunsolve patches are available
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