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Date:      Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:03:07 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? 
Message-ID:  <22287.932504587@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:00:04 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907201658350.71734-100000@janus.syracuse.net> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907201658350.71734-100000@janus.syracuse.net>, "Bria
n F. Feldman" writes:

>> 	/ddname = find_dev/s/BLK/CHR/
>
>No, that's wrong. You cannot do buffered-type IO on a cdev. I committed
>a workaround, and now it works. There's no easy way around this, except
>possibly making kern.dumpdev a string (makes quite a bit of sense there...)

Indeed.  a dev_t should never be exported as such from the kernel
anymore, in particular not for bdevs.  dumps and swap are the two
offenders left.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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