From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 16 22:48:45 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wemm.org (12-232-135-171.client.attbi.com [12.232.135.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFFE537B404; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:48:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3H5mee04269; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:48:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 248C9380F; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:48:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai , "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Steve Kargl Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c In-Reply-To: <9566.1019020462@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:48:41 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020417054841.248C9380F@overcee.wemm.org> 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 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