on 15/12/2012 23:03 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 04:53:48PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> Like what if I do gzipp'd kernel dumps next? (on my todo list) How many >> people will complain that "gzip is too dangerous in kernel context foo >> foo!!!!" >> >> Not sure, I guess I'll find out? > > Well... :) savecore(8) has an option to compress the dumps. The only use > case for compressing-while-dumping I see is small swap/dump partition. I'm > not against this change, but I would not use it myself. When you are > dumping your kernel is in undefined state, so the less code you execute in > that state the higher chances your dump will succeed. I much prefer to > either compress the dumps with savecore(8) or use ZFS dataset with > compression enabled for /var/crash/.
Actually compressing core is a good thing when done right. It can speed up the core dumping process in addition to requiring less space. -- 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"
