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Date:      Tue, 4 Dec 2001 18:23:35 -0800
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>, Mark Hannon <markhannon@optushome.com.au>, bugs-followup@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/32261: dump creates a dump file much larger than sum of dumped files
Message-ID:  <20011204182335.B40864@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <p0510100db8331be1f430@[128.113.24.47]>; from drosih@rpi.edu on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 07:37:04PM -0500
References:  <200112041339.aa05506@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <200112041957.fB4Jv1j20226@apollo.backplane.com> <p0510100db8331be1f430@[128.113.24.47]>

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On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 07:37:04PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> While on the topic of 'dump', note that there's also the patch in
>     http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/32414
> 
> which fixes a problem where dump will include information that
> should not be included (due to the nodump flag being set).  This
> too would result in dump files larger than they "should" be...
> 
> The PR includes a patch which is meant to fix this problem.

Yeah, I've been looking at these two together.
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Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
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