on 22/09/2010 22:58 John Baldwin said the following: > Agreed. FWIW, I actually think that this is the only change needed as > crashinfo is enabled by default in 8.x and later. We already include symbols > in kernels by default now, so just setting dumpdev will give you the same > info you generally can get from a textdump in the form of a simple > /var/crash/core.txt.N file. > > The other benefit of full crashdumps + crashinfo as compared to textdumps is > that a developer can request further information in a PR followup (fire up > kgdb and enter command 'X' and reply with the output). With a textdump any > info not collected by the textdump is lost once the machine reboots after the > crash.
Agree++ But what was the reason that dumpdev="AUTO" was reverted? I remember that POLA was quoted at the time. I am not sure what the astonishment actually was - perhaps 'AUTO' was not smart enough and destroyed somebody's data? -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
