Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:30:08 GMT From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: nge@cs.hmc.edu, dougb@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.org, dougb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/73834: Bad dependencies for /etc/rc.d/savecore Message-ID: <200602131930.k1DJU8gA008815@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: Bad dependencies for /etc/rc.d/savecore State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: dougb State-Changed-When: Mon Feb 13 19:25:33 UTC 2006 State-Changed-Why: First, it turns out that you can actually recover a dump even after the partition has been swapon'ed. Second, the problem you describe here has been discussed at great length on the freebsd-current mailing list. The short version is that there is a chicken and egg problem. In order to capture the dump, you need a file system to write to. In order to get a file system to write to, you need fsck. In order to allow fsck to run on a memory constrained system, you may need swap. Thus, the current thinking is that the status quo is the best of our current options. Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-rc->dougb Responsible-Changed-By: dougb Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Feb 13 19:25:33 UTC 2006 Responsible-Changed-Why: I'm closing this one. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=73834
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