Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:48:41 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c Message-ID: <20020417054841.248C9380F@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <9566.1019020462@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20020416174640.A29641@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: > >On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:05:34AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >>> savecore creates 2 files "md5.info" and "md5.core" where > >>> "md5" is determined from the md5 checksum of the kernel dump header > >> > >> I wanted to avoid having to open the disk device in RW mode, so the > >> best way to find out if we had already saved a dump was to make > >> a hash of the header and look for that. > > > >No one I have spoken to likes the change. Please put us back to > >traditional behavior. > > Well, Marcel has taken the lead in the area, so I would suggest you > discuss it with him. I have no preferences either way. For what it's worth, I was horrified when I saw what had been done. I liked my numbered vmcore's, darn it! :-) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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