On Dec 30 10:43:00, m.vandu...@jonker.nl wrote:
> I'm migrating my data from an ext3 partition (formatted under Debian
> 6.0, sparc64) to my new i386 OBSD system.

You need to give more detail. You installed an i386 obsd machine,
and did what? Took an ext3fs disk out of a Debian sparc64 machine,
put it in the new obsd machine? How did you mount it?
How exactly are you "migrating" it?

> When copying I found out that some files weren't copied correctly and
> returned the error: "read error: Invalid argument".

*Some* files. Other files copied correctly?
Can you tell a pattern of which was which?

> The files are usable when mounting the disk under i386 Debian, so it's
> not an cpu-architectural problem.

So, you put the same sparc64 disk into an i386 Debian machine,
and did what exactly? Copied the whole thing over, with cp,
without a read error?

> Other programs trying to operate on these files via ext2fs also fail
> with the same notion, (e.g. md5). And extracting these files from a
> tarball also result in the same error.

What tarball?

> The ls command does succeed and shows the correct information
> (file-size, access-time, etc).
> 
> When moving these files over via nfs the problem doesn't occur and the
> files are saved correctly on my ffs partition.

That (or scp) is how I always copied files
from one FS/OS/arch to a completely different FS/OS/arch.

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