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Date:      Sat, 2 Mar 2002 20:45:18 -0500
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: crash partition
Message-ID:  <20020302204518.A84076@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020302153847.K66092@blossom.cjclark.org>; from cjc@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:38:47PM -0800
References:  <20020302152858.A83208@blackhelicopters.org> <20020302153847.K66092@blossom.cjclark.org>

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On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:38:47PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:28:58PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote:
> And what's the problem with the age-old solution of using your swap
> partition?

Is it safe, useful, and reliable to use a -stable savecore to recover
a -current dump?  Will it always be so?  My gut reaction is that this
isn't guaranteed to work properly.

My laptop is configured for multi-boot, -stable and -current.  While I
want to provide solid bug reports, my laptop is a production system; I
cannot have it down while I try to identify and fix today's Bug of
Slow Hideous Death.  (Unfortunately, my current job is not even
vaguely FreeBSD related.)  So, if -current panics, I boot -stable and
get on with life.

I'd feel better if I had a separate place to dump these until I could
go home, boot into -current, recover the core, and get on with
prepping my bug report.

(This, of course, completely ignores the fact that my latest problems
have all been silent lockups, but one keeps cvsuping and hoping...)

==ml

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