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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:55:22 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 284437] zdb -y somepool fails
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Rob Norris <robn@despairlabs.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Rob Norris <robn@despairlabs.com> ---
I've been explaining to people all morning that by itself, zdb crashing is
meaningless. It's not a general purpose tool. It's a parallel implementatio=
n of
the ZFS core, in userspace, that runs against the block devices directly,
"under" the kernel implementation (if it exists). The most common reason fo=
r it
crashing against an active pool is that the on-disk data changed out from u=
nder
it, and it got confused. This is not rare.

I'm not saying there's not some people with broken pools as reported upstre=
am.
I am saying that if the _only_ data point is "zdb crashed", then there is
almost certainly no issue.

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