conf/73834: Bad dependencies for /etc/rc.d/savecore

[Doug Barton]

Synopsis: Bad dependencies for /etc/rc.d/savecore

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: dougb
State-Changed-When: Mon Feb 13 19:25:33 UTC 2006
State-Changed-Why: 

First, it turns out that you can actually recover a dump
even after the partition has been swapon'ed. Second, the
problem you describe here has been discussed at great
length on the freebsd-current mailing list. The short
version is that there is a chicken and egg problem. In
order to capture the dump, you need a file system to write
to. In order to get a file system to write to, you need
fsck. In order to allow fsck to run on a memory constrained
system, you may need swap. Thus, the current thinking is
that the status quo is the best of our current options.


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-rc->dougb
Responsible-Changed-By: dougb
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Feb 13 19:25:33 UTC 2006
Responsible-Changed-Why: 

I'm closing this one.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=73834