Q&A on textdumps (fwd)

[Vince Hoffman]

Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:51:52 +0200
> Volker <volker at vwsoft.com> wrote:
> 
>> while the system is experiencing a panic, it does not have any knowledge
>> about filesystems and also does not know about the GELI swap space anymore.
>>
>> In this situation the geli encrypted swap will be overwritten by a dump
>> (either minidump or the classical one). When the system boots up again,
>> it will check $dumpdev for a dump and save it to $savecore before geli
>> swap is brought up again.
>>
>> Or in short: geli backed swap should not do you any harm.
> 
> Hi Volker,
> That is what I had thought. But I clearly remember, back in 6.x the dump would be written to swap, then on restart, geli would kick in before savedump , therefore obliterating anything saved from the previous session.
> 
> I will need to retest this...luckily 7-STABLE has been rock solid and haven't experienced many crashes.
> 
> btw, how do I trigger a panic manually? :D
> 
sysctl debug.kdb.panic=1
according to
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-online-ddb.html
anyway :)


Vince


> cheers,
> B
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