Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:47:07 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org, jake@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dumpsys() rewrite Message-ID: <20020312224707.I56358@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <xzp3cz5v7rp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:41:14PM %2B0100 References: <xzp3cz5v7rp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:41:14PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> c) the on-disk format will be as follows:
>=20
> - first, a chunk of metadata beginning with "DUMPINFO\n" and
> listing a number of parameters as key-value pairs, like this:
>=20
> DUMPINFO
> dumpinfo_size=3D0x1000
> page_size=3D0x1000
> dev_bsize=3D0x200
> dumplo=3D0x6c0020
> kernbase=3D0xc0000000
phk already suggested XML, so I'll content myself with:
1. Is it worth putting a version field in there somewhere.
=20
2. Is that the order of the fields above, or can they appear in any
order?
3. To avoid ambiguity, it might be worth having an explicit "end of
metadata" marker before the dump data.
N=20
--=20
FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__)
FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',)
\/ \=
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