Joe Peterson wrote:
Chris Dillon wrote:
That is a chunk of a Mozilla Mork-format database. Perhaps the Firefox URL history or address book from Thunderbird.

Interesting (thanks to all who recognized Mork).  I do use Firefox and
Thunderbird, so it's feasible, but how the heck would a piece of one of
those files find its way into 1/2 of a ZFS block in one of my mp3 files?
   I wonder if it could have been done on write when the file was copied
to the ZFS pool (maybe some write-caching issue?), but I thought ZFS
would have verified the block after write.  It seems unlikely that it
would g

it could be an old file..
what kind of disks?
I had a scenario where 3ware controllers were just failing to write to
a drive in the array, so old data showed through.

it was possible by looking to see where the boundary between good and bad was, to identify the culprit..

the filesystem and the partitions and the raids all were on different
alignments so teh only part of the system that had a boundary that aligned with the bad data was the physical stripes laid down by the controller. It was 64k stripes and 64k data missing, exactly on stripe boundaries. Due to the fact that FreeBSD had partitioned the drive staring at 63 blocks in, nothing else aligned with the problem.


                                                -Joe
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