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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:47:07 +0000
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: dumpsys() rewrite
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:41:14PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> c) the on-disk format will be as follows:
>=20
>     - first, a chunk of metadata beginning with "DUMPINFO\n" and
>       listing a number of parameters as key-value pairs, like this:
>=20
> DUMPINFO
> dumpinfo_size=3D0x1000
> page_size=3D0x1000
> dev_bsize=3D0x200
> dumplo=3D0x6c0020
> kernbase=3D0xc0000000

phk already suggested XML, so I'll content myself with:

  1.  Is it worth putting a version field in there somewhere.
 =20
  2.  Is that the order of the fields above, or can they appear in any
      order?

  3.  To avoid ambiguity, it might be worth having an explicit "end of
      metadata" marker before the dump data.

N=20
--=20
FreeBSD: The Power to Serve      http://www.freebsd.org/               (__)
FreeBSD Documentation Project    http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/    \\\'',)
                                                                      \/  \=
 ^
   --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F  94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 ---         .\._/=
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