Trouble booting system with root within gvinum volume

Sean C. Farley scf at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 27 16:28:18 UTC 2009


On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Kamigishi Rei wrote:

> On 22.10.2009 18:41, Sean C. Farley wrote:
>> now the answer to the question about striped swap being able to save 
>> a core dump from a panic?  Are there any other issues with using a 
>> stripe (gvinum, gstripe or zfs) for swap?
>
> Impossible; you can't cleanly save core dumps to zfs and GEOM_STRIPE 
> swap devices because zfs and GEOM layers are already dead during 
> doadump().

That makes sense.  Thank you.  I will make a swap outside of any GEOM 
device.

Sean
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