conf/63648: [PATCH] make the startup savecore(8) to compress saved cores by default

[Ruslan Ermilov]

The following reply was made to PR conf/63648; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
To: Xin LI <delphij at frontfree.net>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/63648: [PATCH] make the startup savecore(8) to compress saved cores by default
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 20:12:52 +0200

 On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:48:01AM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
 [...]
 > On a machine having big RAM, it will be a nightmare to have many 
 > coredumps saved in /var/crash, and compressing it by default will 
 > make unattended boxes possible to have more dumps saved.
 > 	For users do not want to save a compressed coredumps, it 
 > is always possible to set savecore_flags="" in rc.conf. 
 > 
 > Index: rc.conf
 [...]
 > -savecore_flags=""	# Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present.
 > +savecore_flags="-z"	# Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present.
 
 I don't see much point making it the default, as it violates POLA.
 Many users expect ``gdb -k'' to just work, without needing to
 uncompress core first.
 
 
 Cheers,
 -- 
 Ruslan Ermilov
 FreeBSD committer
 ru at FreeBSD.org