From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 7 08:11:11 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43048106564A; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:11:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryusuke@FreeBSD.org) Received: from castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (castle.jp.FreeBSD.org [IPv6:2001:218:422:1::15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D7B68FC08; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:11:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [::1]) by castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (8.11.6p2+3.4W/8.11.3) with ESMTP/inet6 id q078B9O77457; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 17:11:09 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from ryusuke@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:11:03 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20120107.171103.193758902.ryusuke@jp.FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org From: Ryusuke SUZUKI X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Multipart/Signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="--Security_Multipart(Sat_Jan__7_17_11_03_2012_364)--" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/159650: Call for review : Description of crash dump (developers-handbook) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:11:11 -0000 ----Security_Multipart(Sat_Jan__7_17_11_03_2012_364)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Last year, I took PR/159650. This PR is related to the crash dump. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/159650 As you know, "dumpdev" variable of rc.conf file is "AUTO" in HEAD, but changed to "NO" on the stable branches. References RELENG_9 : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf#rev1.394.2.2 RELENG_8 : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf#rev1.358.2.2 RELENG_6 : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf#rev1.252.2.17 However, developers-handbook "10.1.1 Configuring the Dump Device" only says "AUTO is the default as of FreeBSD 6.0." http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html#CONFIG-DUMPDEV We should update this sentence. And I also would like to mention the crash dump menu of the bsdinstall, recently kensmith@ added http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1485239+0+archive/2011/svn-src-all/20111204.svn-src-all Please review the follwoing patch: Index: chapter.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ryusuke/work/cvs-doc/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug/chapter.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.80 diff -u -r1.80 chapter.sgml --- chapter.sgml 2 Dec 2010 14:53:45 -0000 1.80 +++ chapter.sgml 7 Jan 2012 06:54:34 -0000 @@ -76,8 +76,13 @@ &man.rc.conf.5; to the path of the swap device (the recommended way to extract a kernel dump) or AUTO to use the first configured swap - device. AUTO is the default as of - &os; 6.0. + device. The defualt for dumpdev is + AUTO in HEAD, and changed to + NO on RELENG_* branches (exceptionally, + it leave AUTO in RELENG_7). + On &os; 9.0-RELEASE and later versions, + bsdinstall will prompt if crash dumps + should be enabled on the target system during the install process. Check /etc/fstab or &man.swapinfo.8; for a list of swap devices. Regards, Ryusuke ----Security_Multipart(Sat_Jan__7_17_11_03_2012_364)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAk8H/hcACgkQG5rRvmPSlyTPQQCgg44r+bIGEhkj+275D+Wnh1bo 8OYAnitwXwAElyASJBUHs7lrCGmhmggN =NIsP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Sat_Jan__7_17_11_03_2012_364)----