Analysis of disk file block with ZFS checksum error

[Chris Dillon]

Quoting Joe Peterson <joe at skyrush.com>:

> I dumped the whole bad section as a string, and here's (partly) what I get:

[...edited for brevity...]

> @$${138B8B{@
> <(21470=Thu Jan 24 23:20:58 2008)>
> [117:^80(^91^21470)]
> @$$}138B8B}@
>
> @$${138C18{@
> <(21472=1201242069)>[-2:^80(^82^85)(^83^1B5)(^84=b)(^85=1)(^86=0)(^87=0)
>     (^88=0)(^89^2146C)(^8A=)(^8B=40)(^8C=2e)(^8D^84)(^8E=0)(^90^21472)
>     (^91^21460)]
> @$$}138C18}@
>
> @$${138C19{@
> <(21473=a72f78)>[2:^80(^89^21473)]
> @$$}138C19}@
>
> @$${138C1A{@
> @$$}138C1A}@
>
> and more of the same.  Note the date string.  There are several like
> that.  Anyone recognize this text format?

That is a chunk of a Mozilla Mork-format database.  Perhaps the  
Firefox URL history or address book from Thunderbird.

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