[Ocfs-users] copy error + control file corruption in ocfs 1.1 0

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 02:12:30PM +0000, Bryce wrote:
> Yes,.. when you do the cp --o_direct ../a2/control02.ctl ./control01.ctl
> can you run an md5sum on both files?
> 
> ie run the command
> md5sum ./a2/control02.ctl ./control01.ctl

	Don't we have to --o_direct the md5sum?  Otherwise, the O_DIRECT
read/writes of the files during cp could be out of sync with the
buffered copies that md5sum will read.

Joel

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