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Date:      Mon, 5 Dec 2005 04:22:01 -0500
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@phaedrus.sandvine.ca>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Should savecore run before swap?
Message-ID:  <20051205092200.GA6804@sandvine.com>
In-Reply-To: <43940410.7070202@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <43940410.7070202@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:10:40AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:

> Please see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/73834, which 
> looks reasonable to me. Opinions?

I believe one reason swap is done so early is that fsck might need swap
space, and savecore clearly needs a clean filesystem.

-ed



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