Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 15:11:08 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: gzipped crashdumps Message-ID: <20010901151108.B57116@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200109011929.f81JTIt33969@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:29:18PM -0700 References: <20010901011631.A59345@xor.obsecurity.org> <200109011929.f81JTIt33969@vashon.polstra.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:29:18PM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > 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. Yes. Maybe I'll do some testing to see how much space it saves -- it might be useful as a non-default option for people who are low on disk space. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7kVz7Wry0BWjoQKURArs7AJ9S2R/HqxSC+dw+e15UL7A7ybMdHwCg7K7w gnbyDeURttHDFQd1s8n53Wk= =RdW9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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