Re: 3.0 wishlist Was: Overview of 2.2.x goals?
James Mastros (root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:28:45 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Oddly however, NetBSD manages to trash partitions.
>
> You'd need to CRC everything the dump code depends on:
> disk driver -> kmalloc -> slab system...
>
> Even when that looks good, the _hardware_ may be confused.
Perhaps we should have crash dumps be optional... IE: If you get a
reproducable crash, you can secure your data (should be done if you are
crashing anyway), enable crash dumps, and hope for the best.
-=- James Mastros