Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:24:41 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r212964 - head/sys/kern Message-ID: <20100922222441.00002f27@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4C9A6EE6.5050301@freebsd.org> References: <201009211507.o8LF7iVv097676@svn.freebsd.org> <4C9A1602.4020204@freebsd.org> <1285169017.64197.29.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <201009221558.27393.jhb@freebsd.org> <4C9A6EE6.5050301@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:02:30 +0300 Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote: > But what was the reason that dumpdev="AUTO" was reverted? > I remember that POLA was quoted at the time. > I am not sure what the astonishment actually was - perhaps 'AUTO' was > not smart enough and destroyed somebody's data? > The problem with "AUTO" is that it takes time to do the dump unless using textdumps; it also has the potential of failing and leaving the system unusable until someone resets it. I believe the argument was that for production servers you want the system to be up and running again as soon as possible after a crash. -- Bruce Cran
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