Public bug reported: The OS is 16.10 Yakkety LiveCD.
I'm seeing silent file corruption when using the cp -ar switches for file transfers to a Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 32GB thumb drive across a USB 2.0 bus. The first indication of a problem is when attempting to read the data at some point in time after the initial copy. The copy command completes successfully with no visible errors. At first I thought this may have been related to an async write, however; the issue persists after a flush of the write buffer prior to ejection of the device, and there are no issues with DD. As a test, a 2.5G file was generated with random data and then copied with cp -ar to and from the device. The copy completes with no visible errors within 3 seconds. I've included the strace log of the transfer in action as an attachment. ** Affects: coreutils (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Attachment added: "strace" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1681138/+attachment/4858497/+files/log.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1681138 Title: silent file corruption with cp -ar file transfers to USB To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1681138/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs