From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 12 11:47: 7 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E3C37B41B; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:47:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 43E2A5347; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:46:59 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Peter Wemm Cc: Jake Burkholder , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c References: <20020312194025.50BFC380A@overcee.wemm.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 12 Mar 2002 20:46:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020312194025.50BFC380A@overcee.wemm.org> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm writes: > I'm not sure that will cut it, the entire structure of the dump has to > change since phsyical ram will probably not be contiguous and will probably > not start at address zero either. I was thinking a while back (when I made savecore() write sparse files) that dumpsys() and its minions should be able to write sparse dumps (to avoid writing out unused areas). I guess I'll just have to follow up on that thought :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message