From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 28 7:38:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gidora.zeta.org.au (gidora.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4563337BF35 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:38:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: (qmail 14501 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2000 15:38:36 -0000 Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (203.2.228.102) by gidora.zeta.org.au with SMTP; 28 Mar 2000 15:38:36 -0000 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 01:38:19 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Gary Jennejohn , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , Soren Schmidt , Brian Fundakowski Feldman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DDB and dumping disk In-Reply-To: <37478.954248264@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> 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, 28 Mar 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Given that the moment at which dumpdev is set seems important, I think > it's probably better for me to back these isntructions out of the > dumpon(8) manual page and wait for something less tricky. > > Do you agree? Yes. The man page is also misleading about single user mode. dumpon(8) works fine in single user mode. The problem case is when the system crashes before reaching user mode. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message