Miles Nordin wrote:
>>>>>> "ic" == Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> writes:
>>>>>>             
>
>       >  Personally, I'd like to place a limit on /var/core/;
>
>     ic> You can specify the volsize on /rpool/dump on a zfs boot
>     ic> system.
>
> so what?  so you can truncate each core dump to make it useless before
> they are all copied one after another into /var/core each time the
> machine reboots, filling up / with truncated core dumps instead of
> full ones?
>   
I was simply pointing out that there is a limit on /var/crash/, nothing
more.

/rpool/dump is a volume, so it has a fixed size.  I normally increase this size 
because the default tends to be too small, leaving truncated crash dumps.

-- 
Ian.

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