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SubjectRe: kiobuf using kernel pagest
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> |>Firstly if your machine has crashed I wouldnt recommend invoking the scsi
> |>disk layer. If your partition info is corrupt or the scsi malloc pool is
> |>corrupt you could hit anything.
>
> Considering it's to a swap partition, I doubt there's a problem here.
> The SCBs should be doing to the device specified by /dev/vmdump - no
> other.

The offsets for partitions come from tables in ram. If those are corrupt you
splatter the disk.



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