Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:29:24 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Analysis of disk file block with ZFS checksum error Message-ID: <20080208232923.GD85696@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <47ACDE82.1050100@skyrush.com> References: <47ACD7D4.5050905@skyrush.com> <D6B0BBFB-D6DB-4DE1-9094-8EA69710A10C@apple.com> <47ACDE82.1050100@skyrush.com>
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In the last episode (Feb 08), Joe Peterson said: > Mark Day wrote: > > Based on the subset of data you posted, the bad data looks like > > ASCII text. The bad data from offset a0000 to a000f is: > > > > ${138AFE{@ > > @$$}1 > > > > The bad data from offset af6c1 to af6c8 is: > > > > 392A9}@ > > > > I don't recognize the content beyond that, but I'd guess that > > somehow the contents of some other file managed to overwrite that > > portion of the bad file. As for how that happened, I don't know. > > But if someone recognizes where the bad content came from, that > > might be a clue. > > Good eye! Yes, it indeed does appear to be ASCII. I *thought* > something in the repetition when I originally did an od -a looked > interesting. > > I dumped the whole bad section as a string, and here's (partly) what I get: > > @$${138B8B{@ > <(21470=Thu Jan 24 23:20:58 2008)> > [117:^80(^91^21470)] > @$$}138B8B}@ ... > @$${138C18{@ > <(21472=1201242069)>[-2:^80(^82^85)(^83^1B5)(^84=b)(^85=1)(^86=0)(^87=0) > (^88=0)(^89^2146C)(^8A=)(^8B=40)(^8C=2e)(^8D^84)(^8E=0)(^90^21472) > (^91^21460)] > @$$}138C18}@ > > and more of the same. Note the date string. There are several like > that. Anyone recognize this text format? It's a Mork database from the Mozilla project: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mork_Structure#Rows -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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