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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 20:31:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
To:        luoqi@watermarkgroup.com, peter@netplex.com.au
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c
Message-ID:  <199905180031.UAA24252@lor.watermarkgroup.com>

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> IMHO, What savecore should be doing is:
> - savecore: usage: savecore [-cfvz] [-N system] directory
> + savecore: usage: savecore [-cfvz] [-M dumpdev] [-N system] directory
> 
> or something like that.   That way you can do a savecore from a specific
> device or before dumpon.
> 
> > -lq
> 
> Cheers,
> -Peter
> 
I like the idea. But dumpdev is not enough to locate the core, we need dumplo
as well. I'm thinking, maybe we should write these information (dumplo,
rootfs device, kernel inode number) to the last block of the dump device,
so we have all the information we need for a crash dump given dumpdev.

-lq


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