From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 2 16:46:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA18795 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 16:46:10 -0800 Received: from linux4nn.iaf.nl (root@linux4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA18789 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 16:46:06 -0800 Received: from uni4nn.iaf.nl (root@uni4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.33]) by linux4nn.iaf.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA11440; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 02:05:43 +0100 Received: by uni4nn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA16237 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Fri, 3 Mar 1995 01:44:04 +0200 Received: by iafnl.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA27451 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4); Thu, 2 Mar 1995 23:50:10 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.6.8/8.6.6) id XAA00817; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 23:37:29 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199503022237.XAA00817@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: A question about DODUMP To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 23:37:29 +1596657 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503020636.HAA19784@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 2, 95 07:36:56 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 861 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 Or allow partial dumps? Only active/'relevant' (what is relevant ? ;-) pages to be dumped on a panic. Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------