From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 1 12:29:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070AE37B40A for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:29:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f81JTJg12242; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:29:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.5/8.11.0) id f81JTIt33969; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:29:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200109011929.f81JTIt33969@vashon.polstra.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: gzipped crashdumps In-Reply-To: <20010901011631.A59345@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010901011631.A59345@xor.obsecurity.org> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA 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 In article <20010901011631.A59345@xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message