[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joey.kitenet.net/" nickname="joey" subject="comment 3" date="2012-02-14T22:57:29Z" content=""" All that git annex fsck does is checksum the file and move it away if the checksum fails. If bad data was somehow read from the disk that one time, what you describe could occur. I cannot think of any other way it could happen. """]]