From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu May 9 06:05:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA01370 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 9 May 1996 06:05:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from innocence.interface-business.de (innocence.interface-business.de [193.101.57.101]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA01363 Thu, 9 May 1996 06:05:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ida.interface-business.de (ida.interface-business.de [193.101.57.203]) by innocence.interface-business.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA11593; Thu, 9 May 1996 15:08:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by ida.interface-business.de (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA14478; Thu, 9 May 1996 15:08:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605091308.PAA14478@ida.interface-business.de> Subject: Re: kern/794 To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 15:08:23 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de, phk@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <4746.831646768@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "May 9, 96 12:59:28 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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