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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>,
	Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>,
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Subject: Re: -current unusable after a crash
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On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:02:14PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:

> I don't think this is really possible.

Yeah :(

> If you made system dumps mandatory (or marked swap with a non-dump
> header in case of panic), this still would not handle the "silent
> reboot", "double panic", or "single panic with disk I/O trashed"
> cases.  8-(.

And the panics that affect the disk/filesystem are likely to not give
a crashdump, but at the same time are likely to cause FS problems for
bgfsck :-(

Kris

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