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Date:      Thu, 9 May 1996 15:08:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de>
To:        phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de, phk@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/794
Message-ID:  <199605091308.PAA14478@ida.interface-business.de>
In-Reply-To: <4746.831646768@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "May 9, 96 12:59:28 pm"

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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> So should we change our code to put dumps starting 8k into the selected
> partition ?

Can we find about the absolute block number relative to the BSD slice?
If so, we only need to offset the dump if the starting block number of
the `b' partition is < 16.

I think the computation of the offset must be done at system init
time.  If my memory serves well, savecore(8) picks the contents of a
kernel variable at run-time to determine the starting block of the
dump in the dump area.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j



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