Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:59:46 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: on architecture of dumping Message-ID: <90048.1250593186@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:43:57 %2B0300." <4A8A85ED.4090404@freebsd.org>
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In message <4A8A85ED.4090404@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon writes: > >I think that the following is quite obvious, but it needs to be said anyway. > >I think that we should switch from current approach of hierarchically >configuring dumper to having a hierarchy of dumpers. I think this is utterly wolly thinking. The amount of complexity this will impose is staggering, and the potential benefit is no where close to justifying it. Add a cheap ATA disk for your dumps or make an USB stick work for dumps and use that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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