Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:41:17 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>, alfred@FreeBSD.org, adrian@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [patch] allow crash dumps to Linux swap partitions Message-ID: <4F0AB63D.2040503@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <4F0AB28B.9070003@FreeBSD.org> References: <201201090911.q099B605025369@gw.catspoiler.org> <4F0AB19C.6000601@gmx.com> <4F0AB28B.9070003@FreeBSD.org>
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On 1/9/2012 11:25 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > Actually I'm fairly confident that we write dumps backwards from the end > of the swap partition. It's done that way on purpose in case fsck'ing > causes the system to swap, it may still be possible to save the dump. So, dumping core is safe, but not sharing the swap area... It would be nice to be able to do that. Nikos
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