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On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 01:24:23PM -0700, nealb wrote: > We've recently ran into an issue on one of our RHEL5.6 servers where our MBR > is being zero'd out. We are trying to identify if this is a vendor app > causing this which does do queries on disk that are on the system and does > have the capability of wiping disk, but isn't suppose to touch sda*. examples/io/mbrwatch.stp If it's not shipped in RHEL 5.6 you can get it from http://sourceware.org/systemtap/examples/ This is a fairly common use case. > Vendor > says this isn't possible for there app to do this and pretty much told us to > not open a case about this again. I was hoping systemtap might be able to > say yay or nay on this. I'm not familar with the language systemtap uses, > but was hoping to know if this is something that systemtap could provide > insight on what is causing the MBR to be zero'd out if it is truly software > related and not hardware. Any guidance/examples would be greatly > appreciated and apologies in advance for the lack of knowledge on systemtap. > -- > View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Can-systemtap-help-in-this-case--tp32607395p32607395.html > Sent from the Sourceware - systemtap mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
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