Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:24:45 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: V??clav Haisman <V.Haisman@sh.cvut.cz>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB memory stick as dump device Message-ID: <200711291024.46310.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20071128193042.GC71382@elvis.mu.org> References: <474D304C.7030705@sh.cvut.cz> <20071128193042.GC71382@elvis.mu.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > is it possible to use USB memory stick as dump device for panic > > dumps? I have a 6.2 box with gmirrors and no non-gmirror disks. I > > have never managed to get dumps work onto the swap partition on the > > mirror. So...is it possible to use USB stick as a dump device or > > should I not even try that? > I don't think that will work currently. Wasn't there some work done a while back to make the USB stack work when interrupts are disabled? (by iedowse think?) Maybe it was more along the lines of "this would be nice" :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHTf/G5ZPcIHs/zowRAr3RAJ9vG7+nTuMb1zYrZzVqxoybr3AjngCePTkH aC2/sbVdHAOVcTE2LvKJjsQ= =PFsJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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