Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:23:35 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c Message-ID: <96Oct14.152347pdt.177480@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Oct 1996 14:38:13 PDT." <199610142138.HAA13903@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199610142138.HAA13903@godzilla.zeta.org.au>you write: >However, >writing the last K is unlikely to work anyway because statfs can't >report the exact amount free in advance (it can't know how many >indirect blocks there will be in advance). Thus setting minfree to >0 is bogus. But savecore could make a pretty good guess about the number of indirect blocks, right? needed = kernelsize + dumpsize; needed += fudge(needed); Bill
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