On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:55:16PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > > In Solaris 8(?) this changed, in that crashdumps streans were > compressed as they were written out to disk. Although I've never read > this anywhere, I assumed the reasons this was done are as follows:
What happens if the dump slice is too small? Just the dump just fail? I mostly don't care about dumps, so...... ;) -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
