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Date:      Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:29:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org
Subject:   Re: gzipped crashdumps
Message-ID:  <200109011929.f81JTIt33969@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010901011631.A59345@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20010901011631.A59345@xor.obsecurity.org>

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In article <20010901011631.A59345@xor.obsecurity.org>,
Kris Kennaway  <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
> Anyone else think this patch from NetBSD is worthwhile?

Yes yes yes yes yes!  That's 5 votes in favor of it already. :-)

> Should I also extend it to support bzip2'ed dumps now that that's in
> the base system, or would that be overkill?

I'm more or less neutral on that, but since the files are so big I
bet bzip2 would be almost too slow to bear at reboot time.

John
-- 
  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa


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