Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:34:23 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a la Message-ID: <200112110134.fBB1YNs49856@apollo.backplane.com> References: <XFMail.011210133843.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200112102221.fBAMLD648896@apollo.backplane.com> <15381.18374.269597.931300@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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:True, but in nearly three years of using partial dumps, I can't :remember that ever happening. And I was mucking with the VM system :in my zero-copy work. Again, that's why it would be optional. : :Anyway, have a look at the partial dump diffs done 2 years ago by :Darrell Anderson. :http://www.cs.duke.edu/~anderson/freebsd/partialdump :These are old, non-context diffs to 4.0 (at the time -current). :There'd be some mergework to do, but I think it would be quite handy. : :Drew : :PS: We eventually abandoned partial dump in favor of netdump, which works :on roughly the same principals but is quite a bit faster, but more of :a local hack: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~anderson/freebsd/netdump/ I'd like to see a working netdump for FreeBSD. There are MANY instances where it would have helped a lot... like when the panic is in the middle of the SCSI code and dumps don't work. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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