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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 01:38:19 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DDB and dumping disk 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003290136530.626-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <37478.954248264@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>

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On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> Given that the moment at which dumpdev is set seems important, I think
> it's probably better for me to back these isntructions out of the
> dumpon(8) manual page and wait for something less tricky.
> 
> Do you agree?

Yes.

The man page is also misleading about single user mode.  dumpon(8) works
fine in single user mode.  The problem case is when the system crashes
before reaching user mode.

Bruce



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