Unable to dump on ccd partitions?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Nov 16 15:30:33 PST 2003


On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:19:24AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20031116231020.GA17653 at xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway writes:
> 
> ># dumpon /dev/ccd0b
> >dumpon: ioctl(DIOCSKERNELDUMP): Invalid argument
> >
> >Why doesn't this work?
> 
> Because it would require the entire GEOM I/O engine to participate
> in dumping.
> 
> As far as I know you never could dump on CCD.

Blah, so much for device transparency :(

Kris
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