Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 13:24:16 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic in probe, but no dump Message-ID: <Mutt.19970208132416.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199702081146.WAA09891@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Feb 8, 1997 22:46:09 %2B1100 References: <199702081146.WAA09891@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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As Bruce Evans wrote:
> Not true. You can dump on any large enough disk device (at least for
> sd and wd disks). A swap device is just normally used because its
> contents are disposable.
Ah, i stand corrected.
Btw., i found when code-reviewing that part that it only wants to dump
into partition `b' of some device. Everything else is silently
discarded:
static void
dumpsys(void)
{
if (!dodump)
return;
if (dumpdev == NODEV)
return;
if ((minor(dumpdev)&07) != 1)
^^^^
return;
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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