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Date:      11 Mar 2002 22:22:17 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc src/share/man/man5 rc.conf.5
Message-ID:  <xzpeliq4x6e.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <200203110847.g2B8l4714026@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200203110847.g2B8l4714026@freefall.freebsd.org>

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"Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   At the same time, allow the administrator to have dumpdev enabled
>   while dumpdir (savecore(8)) is disabled and document how to do it.

Speaking of dumpdev, 'dumpon ${dumpdev}' should be one of the very
very first things we do in /etc/rc, before even fsck - it's not
uncommon for kernel bugs to cause panics during the boot process, and
it's a PITA not to have a dump device configured in time.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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