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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:07:02 -0700
From:      "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Ngie Cooper <ngie@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r316938 - head/sbin/savecore
Message-ID:  <25EDEFF2-4993-4C95-B005-8670DF513B72@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7DCBB59B-388F-463D-8FFF-06390E5B5165@gmail.com>
References:  <201704141941.v3EJfmCW003347@repo.freebsd.org> <CAOtMX2gPHWRGiE9UA5AevZz=cTv_qksAWX0H-xRjDEHp0huCVg@mail.gmail.com> <499FA6FF-E691-4941-B96C-3806072D14AA@gmail.com> <CAOtMX2g49C1EqLKOsj6en3B4oaVNQyD3joohFO3QcJTUv1v93Q@mail.gmail.com> <7DCBB59B-388F-463D-8FFF-06390E5B5165@gmail.com>

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> On Apr 14, 2017, at 13:04, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) =
<yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>=20
>> On Apr 14, 2017, at 13:02, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> ...
>=20
>> Right: check_size() needs to know the on-disk size of the core dump.
>> But it doesn't have any way to know the on-disk size until after it's
>> written everything to disk.  That's why I simply disabled the check =
at
>> $WORK.  Another possibility would be for savecore to ignore the
>> up-front check, but handle ENOSPC by deleting the fragmentary vmcore
>> file.  I never tried to implement that.
>=20
> Let me dig through the gzip format a bit. There should be a reasonably =
good upper bound approximation that we can use for compressed mini =
dumps.

Also: deleting truncated dumps sounds great to me: their value when =
truncated is pretty low from what I remember.
-Ngie


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