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Date:      Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:43:37 +0200
From:      felipemonteiro.carvalho@gmail.com
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Uberblock location
Message-ID:  <01184F08-1C6B-4282-9203-1BF98F07A05A@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <557B0255.8060809@freebsd.org>
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hello,

Where can I find the source code that you are mentioning? I am reading the s=
ource in https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs?files=3D1 but it is very large an=
d so far I couldnt pinpoint where it finds the uberblock.

Also the mention of bootblock confuses me since ita for booting while I am w=
orking in a general case, not necessarely involving boot.

thanks,

Felipe

Enviada do meu iPhone

> Em 12/06/2015, =C3=A0s 18:01, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> escreve=
u:
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>> On 6/12/15 9:49 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>> Hello,
>>=20
>> I am writing a program to read ZFS partitions, and although I already
>> read a lot of documentation, there is 1 problem which is blocking me:
>> How does the driver find the uberblock?
>>=20
>> I know, I can just get any test volume, find the ZFS uberblock and in
>> my case it is positioned in 0x20C00 and there are lots and lots of
>> copies (older versions?) of it.
>>=20
>> But there is no guarantee that it doesn't just happen to be in this
>> position in my image and in another version it would be elsewhere, so
>> I need the algorithm utilized to find it.
>=20
> I presume you have looked at the zfs reading library in the bootblocks?
>=20
>>=20
>> Any ideas?
>>=20
>> thanks,
>=20



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