What am I missing here? (sha256sum)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:44:12 -0400, Tom wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:33:19 +0200
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > > Right, so why does sha256sum -c tell me it doesn't match?  
> > 
> > What does it say when you add option -w?
> 
> With -w it doesn't complain, but now it is even more worrisome.
> It is saying the checksum matches now. It is like the first
> run got bad data when it read the file, but now it is getting
> good data.
> 
> I'll have to run some smart diagnostics... (or submit bugs
> about unreliable ext3 in fedora 13 :-).

memtest86+  and  memtester  would be my first choice. ;-)