From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 23:54:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A749816A418; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:54:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D42C13C448; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:54:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lASNsn3w016081 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:24:49 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:24:45 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <474D304C.7030705@sh.cvut.cz> <20071128193042.GC71382@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20071128193042.GC71382@elvis.mu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1828014.SPpNBoNO1B"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200711291024.46310.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: V??clav Haisman , Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: USB memory stick as dump device X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:54:52 -0000 --nextPart1828014.SPpNBoNO1B Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > is it possible to use USB memory stick as dump device for panic > > dumps? I have a 6.2 box with gmirrors and no non-gmirror disks. I > > have never managed to get dumps work onto the swap partition on the > > mirror. So...is it possible to use USB stick as a dump device or > > should I not even try that? > I don't think that will work currently. Wasn't there some work done a while back to make the USB stack work when=20 interrupts are disabled? (by iedowse think?) Maybe it was more along the lines of "this would be nice" :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1828014.SPpNBoNO1B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHTf/G5ZPcIHs/zowRAr3RAJ9vG7+nTuMb1zYrZzVqxoybr3AjngCePTkH aC2/sbVdHAOVcTE2LvKJjsQ= =PFsJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1828014.SPpNBoNO1B--