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Date:      12 Mar 2002 20:46:58 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c
Message-ID:  <xzpbsdtvaa5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20020312194025.50BFC380A@overcee.wemm.org>
References:  <20020312194025.50BFC380A@overcee.wemm.org>

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Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> 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
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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