Should savecore run before swap?

Yar Tikhiy yar at comp.chem.msu.su
Mon Dec 5 09:48:52 GMT 2005


On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:22:01AM -0500, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:10:40AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> > Please see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/73834, which 
> > looks reasonable to me. Opinions?
> 
> I believe one reason swap is done so early is that fsck might need swap
> space, and savecore clearly needs a clean filesystem.

Another point to note is that core files are saved to /var/crash by
default, which in general might need mountcritremote.  BTW, currently
mountcrit* isn't on the REQUIRE line of savecore though.

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Yar


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