Data corruption in VxFS filesystem
Issue
This application (Abinitio) writes data to files in a VxFS file system. It was noticed that sometimes these files had a gap or hole in the data amounting to 128KB (KiloBytes). As a result of this, the application was unable to decompress the file (using Ab Initio proprietary compression/decompression format). Due to this intermittent problem, report generation was often delayed as the application reports had to be re-run. This issue occurs silently; as such no explicit errors are associated with the issue.
Environment
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.x
- Local Veritas File System (VxFS) mounts:
o 6.0.5.100
o 6.1.1, 6.2
o 6.2.0.100 - Abinitio Application.
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