Ian! D. Allen (idallen) wrote: "It took many more runs (several dozen)
to discover the corruption than when using the 2.6.38 kernel, and *only*
the md5sums changed between runs, not the file sizes as well as was true
with 2.6.38."

Have you ruled out hardware causes (e.g. tried the same test on a
different computer)?

I'm asking this because I was just yesterday able to detect a really
hard to track hardware issue with my own computer. It was manifesting
itself as random sha1sum changes to in files when computing checksums
for a 18 GB data set. The system had 8 GB of SDRAM. The memtest86 was
not able to detect any problems when I run it for 5 hours but I was
always able to reproduce the checksum errors in less than 15 minutes by
trying to compute sha1sums repeatedly. In that case, the problem turned
to be an incorrectly behaving memory chip. The problem vanished when I
stopped using that part!

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