From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 8 04:51:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA11496 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 04:51:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA11466 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 04:51:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA25788 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 13:51:02 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id NAA26015; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 13:24:16 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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 References: <199702081146.WAA09891@godzilla.zeta.org.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702081146.WAA09891@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Feb 8, 1997 22:46:09 +1100 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)