Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 13:10:12 +0000 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: phk@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/794 Message-ID: <4844.831647412@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 May 1996 15:08:23 %2B0200." <199605091308.PAA14478@ida.interface-business.de>
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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. yes, so why not simply change the default from 0 to 8k and teach savecore to look both places ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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