Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 20:45:18 -0500 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crash partition Message-ID: <20020302204518.A84076@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20020302153847.K66092@blossom.cjclark.org>; from cjc@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:38:47PM -0800 References: <20020302152858.A83208@blackhelicopters.org> <20020302153847.K66092@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:38:47PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:28:58PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > And what's the problem with the age-old solution of using your swap > partition? Is it safe, useful, and reliable to use a -stable savecore to recover a -current dump? Will it always be so? My gut reaction is that this isn't guaranteed to work properly. My laptop is configured for multi-boot, -stable and -current. While I want to provide solid bug reports, my laptop is a production system; I cannot have it down while I try to identify and fix today's Bug of Slow Hideous Death. (Unfortunately, my current job is not even vaguely FreeBSD related.) So, if -current panics, I boot -stable and get on with life. I'd feel better if I had a separate place to dump these until I could go home, boot into -current, recover the core, and get on with prepping my bug report. (This, of course, completely ignores the fact that my latest problems have all been silent lockups, but one keeps cvsuping and hoping...) ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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