corruption? no corruption? story of my day

Today was all about file corruption on a large production server. the app folks found some files that where corrupt, and we went from there. opened calls with veritas, and started looking in to things. a lesson learned was fsck. With UFS in the past, i had been able to do a fsck -n devname. I did this with vxfs, and did a fsck -F vxfs -n -o nolog,full devname. Got about 3000 errors, so i thought the filesystem was corrupt. doing some checking on a dev box, this was a symptom of the filesystem being mounted. Doh!

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