Dan Halbert wrote: > James Pearson wrote: > >> Just wondering if anyone else has come across an issue where files >> cached in memory appear to become 'corrupted' - for example, on one >> workstation, I've just had the issue: > > There is a kernel bug for this kind of problem but it is for AMD x86_64 > only: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7768 . Since you are > reporting this for i686 as well, I'm not sure it's the same thing. The > symptom is that an entire 4k cached file block is trashed. This was > fixed upstream for 5.x: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238709. I cannot tell if a > similar patch has gone into a 4.x kernel: the appropriate RedHat bug > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223238) is unfortunately > private. Someone could look at the latest kernel sources and see. Thanks for the info - the machine I recently noticed this 'yum' issue is a Supermicro X5DA8 with 2 x 3Ghz (32 bit) Xeons - so not a AMD x86_64 issue - as that kernel bugzilla issue seems to be about ... Anyway, I'll keep poking about ... Thanks James Pearson