From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 26 05:39:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E47B106566B for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:39:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rysto32@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f54.google.com (mail-ww0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC80F8FC14 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:39:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb22 with SMTP id 22so2677588wwb.13 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:38:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=tEyCajGyEkk+9wndb7jrvdlthfzSRBnffMPVMJUeHiY=; b=tmBfpTgYzoQlfHaYMESqmMv1QDvrpfTwfiXEcVzCH83/TyhIk1gmZCWb4wpmaR2w0g KiMtqXAFJObNJBb5EQG5GjAeM6dJqXMyp/px1HzbcdqOo3c63OJf+0hKPHkaqC7/iSkk vPKBi3kMniJDmiHLQNX4a8uK/dEhEoINhIxEs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=VJa8/FTTEIgUpQHXLIBTPKN2MOKc1wf2ForDcf/D8stvx7u0bupfTYgotjwGquFK5F FBeOqTW+vcPDrZc0P4E8Yx+C5JYmofFQLu8LSuWJ0J1UBq8IDF+9/JlVKWbyL5O8XYOt Gc7fkeN7/BmAyKLAduDmisAeJUMt5eHg+TnNI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.163.67 with SMTP id z45mr1038116wek.26.1267162737908; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:38:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d1002252116k55a8e350s5dcc0846cba07785@mail.gmail.com> References: <7d6fde3d1002252116k55a8e350s5dcc0846cba07785@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:38:57 -0500 Message-ID: From: Ryan Stone To: Garrett Cooper Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: ddb and dump devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:39:04 -0000 I think a better idea would be to dump over the network to another server. We do that at $(WORK) for diskless machines and it's quite effective. Currently what we have is very rough and only implemented on 6.1, but if I get some time this weekend I'll try to clean it up and provide a patch against HEAD. Ryan Stone