Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:08:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907201707210.71734-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <22287.932504587@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907201658350.71734-100000@janus.syracuse.net>, "Bria
> n F. Feldman" writes:
>
> >> /ddname = find_dev/s/BLK/CHR/
> >
> >No, that's wrong. You cannot do buffered-type IO on a cdev. I committed
> >a workaround, and now it works. There's no easy way around this, except
> >possibly making kern.dumpdev a string (makes quite a bit of sense there...)
>
> Indeed. a dev_t should never be exported as such from the kernel
> anymore, in particular not for bdevs. dumps and swap are the two
> offenders left.
Should I commit a similar workaround for the swap code too? Quite
simple to do...
>
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
> FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!
>
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