From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 9 09:41:22 2012 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: arch@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D52106567A for <arch@FreeBSD.org>; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:41:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass@gmx.com) Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com (mailout-eu.gmx.com [213.165.64.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A9778FC1D for <arch@FreeBSD.org>; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:41:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Jan 2012 09:41:19 -0000 Received: from adsl-32.46.190.8.tellas.gr (EHLO [192.168.73.192]) [46.190.8.32] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu002) with SMTP; 09 Jan 2012 10:41:19 +0100 X-Authenticated: #46156728 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18wAAttakYw5D2rDH6NuuXv4y3aEEAXPW94/BGPb4 O7fzWmpb+hOsd/ Message-ID: <4F0AB63D.2040503@gmx.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:41:17 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> References: <201201090911.q099B605025369@gw.catspoiler.org> <4F0AB19C.6000601@gmx.com> <4F0AB28B.9070003@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4F0AB28B.9070003@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>, alfred@FreeBSD.org, adrian@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [patch] allow crash dumps to Linux swap partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture <freebsd-arch.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch>, <mailto:freebsd-arch-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-arch-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch>, <mailto:freebsd-arch-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:41:23 -0000 On 1/9/2012 11:25 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > Actually I'm fairly confident that we write dumps backwards from the end > of the swap partition. It's done that way on purpose in case fsck'ing > causes the system to swap, it may still be possible to save the dump. So, dumping core is safe, but not sharing the swap area... It would be nice to be able to do that. Nikos