Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:10:44 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? Message-ID: <22434.932505044@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:08:17 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907201707210.71734-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907201707210.71734-100000@janus.syracuse.net>, "Bria n F. Feldman" writes: >On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907201658350.71734-100000@janus.syracuse.net>, "Bria >> n F. Feldman" writes: >> >> >> /ddname = find_dev/s/BLK/CHR/ >> > >> >No, that's wrong. You cannot do buffered-type IO on a cdev. I committed >> >a workaround, and now it works. There's no easy way around this, except >> >possibly making kern.dumpdev a string (makes quite a bit of sense there...) >> >> Indeed. a dev_t should never be exported as such from the kernel >> anymore, in particular not for bdevs. dumps and swap are the two >> offenders left. > >Should I commit a similar workaround for the swap code too? Quite >simple to do... Please so, but I would appreciate if you would do me the favour of hiding the guts of this monstrosity in kern/kern_conf.c in a function called dev2budev() ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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