Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:41:00 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/24271: dumpon should check its argument more Message-ID: <20010113004100.A12683@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <20010113095245.A66238@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:52:45AM %2B1030 References: <200101121610.f0CGA7a52473@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010113095245.A66238@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:52:45AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > Agreed. There may be reasons to accept that you want to use an entire > slice for your dump device, though I can't think of a convincing one, > but it certainly shouldn't be the default. If you were sharing a swap partition with Linux I can imagine you wanting to do this. In tune with the Unix way (providing you with enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot) it probably shouldn't check even if it was easy to. After all, it's just as easy to accidently dump onto one of your filesystems, and there's no way to accidently detect that! David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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