From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 1 22:51:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA23396 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 22:51:42 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA23366 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 22:51:37 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA14058; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 07:49:10 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id HAA13375 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 07:49:09 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id HAA19784 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 07:36:56 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503020636.HAA19784@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A question about DODUMP To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 07:36:56 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199503020243.NAA18268@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 2, 95 01:43:06 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 553 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > Only one dump device is supported. It has to be large enough or the sd > and wd drivers refuse to write anything. Perhaps we should also start to allow kernel ... dumps on st0 some day? This will also require that savecore can read from a plain file (so someone can dd the tape into /tmp before saving the core). Hmm, perhaps ``dd'' will be sufficient as ``savecore'' than... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)