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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:29:17 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Rewamping kernel dumps...
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Device drivers can provide a dumping function, which will act as
> an blocked sequential write device.  This _can_ be the traditional
> swap-partition-on-disk, but it could also be tapes or TFTP over a
> network interface.


Did anyone else bring up "dump/restore" when Poul originally
removed block devices from FreeBSD?

-- Terry

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