Re: Collecting aged XFS profiles

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On 07/20/2017 02:52 AM, Stefan Ring wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ok, that shoulda worked... I wonder how to debug this, if you can't
>> legally share the problematic image with me to investigate...
>>
>> I put a lot of effort into selectively zeroing out unused portions
>> of metablocks a couple years back, I am surprised that this much remains.
>>
>> I wonder if something regressed ...
> 
> I will try if I can find out which code paths lead to the content
> being dumped out.

Perhaps you could send xfs_info output and offsets of the "safe" strings,
and maybe look at block or sector boundaries of the blocks containing
those "safe" strings to identify magic numbers which would identify
the metadata types ...

-eric
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