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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2005 22:53:02 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: crashdump support in geom_mirror 
Message-ID:  <12216.1105825982@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Jan 2005 22:49:55 %2B0100." <1105825795.8572.3.camel@genius2.i.cz> 

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In message <1105825795.8572.3.camel@genius2.i.cz>, Michal Mertl writes:
>Hello,
>
>is anyone working on kernel crash dump support for geom_mirror? How
>difficult is it going to be? I'm willing to invest some time doing the
>implementation but I don't know where to start. It seems to me it will
>be very different than normal crash dumps in controller drivers.

It is impossible at present and unlikely to ever materialize.  GEOM
requires context-switches to work.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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