Date: 31 Mar 2002 01:19:16 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewamping kernel dumps... Message-ID: <xzpk7rtsi63.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <35316.1017516515@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <35316.1017516515@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> writes: > 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. You can't put it at the beginning of the partition, because savecore(8) can't run before fsck(8), and fsck(8) may cause the system to swap and overwrite the core dump before savecore(8) has had a chance to save it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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