Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:28:06 +0200 From: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> Cc: svn-src-projects@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r217828 - projects/graid/head/sys/geom/raid Message-ID: <4D403D86.6040901@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1296054407.19051.5.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <201101251534.p0PFY7cF039182@svn.freebsd.org> <201101251117.49069.jhb@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101260923140.44308@fledge.watson.org> <4D3FED31.8040304@FreeBSD.org> <1296054407.19051.5.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
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Ken Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:45 +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: >> Those who want maximum robustness should use dedicated >> drive on the most trivial dedicated controller to make dumping reliable. >> If we are going above that - there are always some compromises. > > Please remember this statement when I change dumpdev from "AUTO" > to "NO" in /etc/defaults/rc.conf shortly after branching stable/9. :-) World is imperfect. We have to choose between our wish to have kernel dumps and some non-zero (by definition, as something there already caused panic) probability that dumping may not finish as we expect. For this time I have already reimplemented dumping in more robust way, so you may relax a bit. :) -- Alexander Motin
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