On 4/25/07, Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yes, dump on ZVOL isn't currently supported, so a dump slice is still >needed. > >Maybe a dumb question, but why would anyone ever want to dump to an >actual filesystem? (Or is my head thinking too Solaris) > >Actually I could see why, but I don't think it is a good idea.
When we talk about dump, we are talking about a crashdump, which is what the solaris kernel does on panic. It dumps to the swap space. Then, at next boot, it takes that crashdump and puts it in /var/crash/<hostname> as part of the savecore process. Only really useful if you plan to submit a ticket to sun under a support contract or know how to read a crashdump file. I've gotten the SPARC assembly and Panic! books, but never did finish them, so a crashdump is mostly useless to me as a home Solaris user. :) -brian -- "Perl can be fast and elegant as much as J2EE can be fast and elegant. In the hands of a skilled artisan, it can and does happen; it's just that most of the shit out there is built by people who'd be better suited to making sure that my burger is cooked thoroughly." -- Jonathan Patschke _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
