From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 2 12:29: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D71C37B400 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 12:28:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g22KSwI83232 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 15:28:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 15:28:58 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: crash partition Message-ID: <20020302152858.A83208@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After some comments from Greg Lehey during his kernel debugging tutorial, (to paraphrase, "you can save your panic to a UFS partition, but it won't be a UFS partition any longer"), I've been experimenting with the idea of a "panic partition" for dumpdevs. The purpose is to have a rapid reboot after a panic. Now, my laptop has a DOS sleep partition. Is it safe to use that as a dumpdev? I have to use 320meg for a sleep partition, and 321 meg for a dumpdev, when I could just use a 321-meg sleep/dump partition. It *seems* to work, but that means absolutely nothing in the real world. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message