Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:28:35 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewamping kernel dumps... Message-ID: <35316.1017516515@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "30 Mar 2002 20:25:10 %2B0100." <xzpofh5svs9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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In message <xzpofh5svs9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> writes: >> Here is what I plan to do to the kernel dumping code. >> [...] > >Sounds good. > >> I understand that various people have some ideas about the layout of >> the dump on the sequential media, this is an area I will not be involved >> in, and I suggest people interested hash this out somehow. > >I uphold my earlier suggestion of a block of metadata formatted as >text. I would probably have stuck it all into tar(1) format from the beginning of the partition. One file for the msgbuf, one file for a ram snapshot etc etc. But as I said, I'm not writing that bit. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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