Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
>> >> no. I didn't stomp while running the verify. I stomped and then ran it. >> In fact I did it a couple times, as at first I wasn't stomping on much >> data, later I zeroed out a 40 meg chunk, about 40 meg into the partition. >> >> (hhmm, sorry, looks like it was 4 Meg into the partion, .bash_history has >> this...) >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg1/nineteen-sys seek=1000 bs=4096 count=10240 > > that may still have been in page cache if you ran the verify immediately > after that. the verify reads directly from disk. ugh. My bad. This appears to have been the explanation. Rerunning the test this morning with a "sync" added to the process finds the expected differences. Thank you for pointing out my error Lars. -Tom