From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Mar 30 16:19:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E2437B405 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:19:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id CCEB65346; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 01:19:17 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewamping kernel dumps... References: <35316.1017516515@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 31 Mar 2002 01:19:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: <35316.1017516515@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > I would probably have stuck it all into tar(1) format from the > beginning of the partition. One file for the msgbuf, one file for > a ram snapshot etc etc. You can't put it at the beginning of the partition, because savecore(8) can't run before fsck(8), and fsck(8) may cause the system to swap and overwrite the core dump before savecore(8) has had a chance to save it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message