Re: gzio is broken

[Marco Gerards]

Timothy Baldwin <address@hidden> writes:

> On Saturday 15 Oct 2005 18:34, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
>> On Saturday 15 October 2005 10:07 am, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
>> > > Problem 2: Reading gzip files all at once results in corruption of the
>> > > data. It can be exposed by this patch:
>> >
>> > Can you investigate this problem?
>>
>> I don't see any problem on my laptop (i386). So this might be specific to
>> ARM.
>
> It isn't, the problem shows up on my i386 desktop in grub-emu. On i386 at 
> least,
> it shows up with a clean source + patch from my last email:
>
> grub> cmp /grub2-20051007.tar /grub2-20051007.tar.gz
> Compare `/grub2-20051007.tar' and `/grub2-20051007.tar.gz':
> Differ at the offset 65536: 0x63 [/grub2-20051007.tar], 0x0 
> [/grub2-20051007.tar.gz]

This could even be a filesystem bug or disk bug.  Can you try copying
these files so two new files are created and compare those.  In that
case you could see if the difference is on the same position.

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Marco