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To: Jun Su <csujun@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:26:26 -0800
From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
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cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Propose for Several Dump types 
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I like the idea of smaller dumps. Certainly KernelOnly is most
useful from my perspective. Mini is also useful. Having an ascii
option for it seems reasonable if it can be done with minimal
kernel code. Otherwise, it seems like it would be fairly simple
to get it after the fact from a binary dump with kgdb.

	Kirk McKusick