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Date:      Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:48:36 +0300
From:      Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@phaedrus.sandvine.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-rc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Should savecore run before swap?
Message-ID:  <20051205094836.GA63070@comp.chem.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <20051205092200.GA6804@sandvine.com>
References:  <43940410.7070202@FreeBSD.org> <20051205092200.GA6804@sandvine.com>

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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:22:01AM -0500, Ed Maste wrote:
> 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.

Another point to note is that core files are saved to /var/crash by
default, which in general might need mountcritremote.  BTW, currently
mountcrit* isn't on the REQUIRE line of savecore though.

-- 
Yar



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