From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 2 17:45:25 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 319C537B400; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 17:45:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g231jIZ84091; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 20:45:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 20:45:18 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crash partition Message-ID: <20020302204518.A84076@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020302152858.A83208@blackhelicopters.org> <20020302153847.K66092@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020302153847.K66092@blossom.cjclark.org>; from cjc@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:38:47PM -0800 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 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 -- 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