On Fri, 22 May 2026 12:19:08 -0400 The Wanderer <[email protected]> wrote:
> The very first thing that came to my mind out of that was RAM issues. > Disk issues was the second, but the tests you've run there seem as if > they'd probably have ruled that out. I agree that the tests I've run so far would tend to rule out disk issues. I just started another set of extended self tests, so we'll see where that goes. The longest should take about ten hours. > > If you run a script to generate the hash of a given file in a loop > (possibly with a don't-overload-the-system pause in between if you > prefer), does it always show the same hash, or does it sometimes show > a different one? I haven't done such a script. But a freshly generated hash of a suspect file will agree with a hash created when the suspect file was created, which may have been five or seven years ago. At least so far. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
