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Date:      Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:32:30 +0200
From:      "Ian Freislich" <ianf@za.uu.net>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel memory leak? 
Message-ID:  <60356.1050478350@wcom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:25:04 MST." <20030415212504.GA17123@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> 
References:  <20030415212504.GA17123@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> 

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Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:11:46PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > In message <55218.1050439220@wcom.com>, "Ian Freislich" writes:
> > 
> > ># There must be a better way to do this
> > 
> > I suggest instead you search for valid superblocks, they have a 
> > well-defined magic word you could look for.
> > 
> > I even belive I have seen reports of a tool that does it automatically,
> > but have no references at hand.

So had I, but I didn't expect it to be a port so I didn't find it
and I'd had great success with this method last time on a 3.x box,
only it didn't panic back then.  Statically linked in /sbin would
have been nice.

> ports/sysutils/ffsrecov

Hopefully I'll remember this in a couple of years time when I next
have a rush of blood to the head and break my disklabels.  However,
it wouldn't have shown up this memory leak :/.

Ian



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