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Date:      Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:46:58 -0600
From:      Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To:        Greg Bonett <greg.bonett@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to destroy zfs parent filesystem without destroying children - corrupted file causing kernel panick
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Greg Bonett <greg.bonett@gmail.com> wrote:
> Many months ago, I believe some *very bad hardware* caused corruption of a
> file on one of my zfs file systems.  I've isolated the corrupted file and
> can reliably induce a kernel panic with "touch bad.file", "rm bad.file", or
> "ls -l" in the bad.file's directory (ls in bad.file's dir doesn't cause
> panic, but "ls bad.file" does).
>
Does:

cat /dev/null > bad.file

Cause a kernel panic?

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