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Date:      Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:52:29 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jordan.hubbard@gmail.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
Subject:   Re: Kernel dumps [was Re: possible changes from Panzura]
Message-ID:  <EC032F13-AF97-4A1D-8772-02EF92613DA7@turbofuzz.com>
In-Reply-To: <51DEC0E8.7010305@freebsd.org>
References:  <FDEEB55D-823B-4899-8EEC-7F5306D91F5B@elischer.org> <9890DFF1-892A-4DCA-9E33-B70681154F43@mail.turbofuzz.com> <4F0DFAB7-D6D5-4068-A543-C9DF885D1A7D@dragondata.com> <51DEC0E8.7010305@freebsd.org>

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On Jul 11, 2013, at 7:27 AM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I could imagine that we could stash away a vimage stack just for this =
purpose.
> yould set it up on boot and leave it detached until you need it.
>=20
> you just need to switch the interfaces over to the new stack on panic =
and put them into 'poll' mode.

That sounds like a rather clever solution to this problem (OS X doesn't =
support vimage, despite repeated attempts on my part to change that).

How much work do you think it would take to bang out a proof of concept? =
 Is anyone up to the challenge?  Any incentives I can provide?  This =
would be really useful. :-)

- Jordan




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