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Date:      Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:28:17 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Trouble booting system with root within gvinum volume
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910271126120.71956@thor.farley.org>
In-Reply-To: <4AE0BA63.2000804@haruhiism.net>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910211811340.16305@thor.farley.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910220928130.20738@thor.farley.org> <4AE0BA63.2000804@haruhiism.net>

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On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Kamigishi Rei wrote:

> On 22.10.2009 18:41, Sean C. Farley wrote:
>> now the answer to the question about striped swap being able to save 
>> a core dump from a panic?  Are there any other issues with using a 
>> stripe (gvinum, gstripe or zfs) for swap?
>
> Impossible; you can't cleanly save core dumps to zfs and GEOM_STRIPE 
> swap devices because zfs and GEOM layers are already dead during 
> doadump().

That makes sense.  Thank you.  I will make a swap outside of any GEOM 
device.

Sean
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scf@FreeBSD.org



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