From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 20 14: 8:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9BBE14C3D for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:08:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA71999; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:08:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:08:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: "Steven G. Kargl" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? In-Reply-To: <22287.932504587@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , "Bria > n F. Feldman" writes: > > >> /ddname = find_dev/s/BLK/CHR/ > > > >No, that's wrong. You cannot do buffered-type IO on a cdev. I committed > >a workaround, and now it works. There's no easy way around this, except > >possibly making kern.dumpdev a string (makes quite a bit of sense there...) > > Indeed. a dev_t should never be exported as such from the kernel > anymore, in particular not for bdevs. dumps and swap are the two > offenders left. Should I commit a similar workaround for the swap code too? Quite simple to do... > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message