svn commit: r217828 - projects/graid/head/sys/geom/raid

Alexander Motin mav at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 26 15:40:35 UTC 2011


Ken Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:45 +0200, Alexander Motin wrote:
>> Those who want maximum robustness should use dedicated
>> drive on the most trivial dedicated controller to make dumping reliable.
>> If we are going above that - there are always some compromises. 
> 
> Please remember this statement when I change dumpdev from "AUTO"
> to "NO" in /etc/defaults/rc.conf shortly after branching stable/9.  :-)

World is imperfect. We have to choose between our wish to have kernel
dumps and some non-zero (by definition, as something there already
caused panic) probability that dumping may not finish as we expect.

For this time I have already reimplemented dumping in more robust way,
so you may relax a bit. :)

-- 
Alexander Motin


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