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Date:      Thu, 2 Mar 1995 07:36:56 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: A question about DODUMP
Message-ID:  <199503020636.HAA19784@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199503020243.NAA18268@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 2, 95 01:43:06 pm

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As Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> Only one dump device is supported.  It has to be large enough or the sd
> and wd drivers refuse to write anything.

Perhaps we should also start to allow

	kernel ... dumps on st0

some day?  This will also require that savecore can read from a plain
file (so someone can dd the tape into /tmp before saving the core).
Hmm, perhaps ``dd'' will be sufficient as ``savecore'' than...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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