savecore problem

[John Baldwin]

On Monday, March 16, 2015 10:17:54 AM Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Michael BlackHeart <amdmiek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello there. I've got a problem. Recently my personal server issued a
> > kernel panic. Then there's a dump and so on. But there's no dump
> > information after reboot. I do not know what was really the panic cause but
> > assume that savecore failed because of RAID.
> >
> > Problem - minidump was done (I saw it was) but was not recovered by
> > savecore after reboot into /var/vrash
> >
> (...)
> 
> > /dev/ufs/varfs          /var            ufs     rw,noatime
> >      2       2
> >
> 
> Last I checked, savecore had to happen very early --- before filesystems
> other than / are mounted.

No, it can happen after that.  What really has to happen is that you don't
use swap (if you are dumping to your swap partition) before savecore runs.

-- 
John Baldwin