On Sat, 14 Jun 97 14:24:34 -0700 
 "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@pa.dec.com> wrote:

 > Huh?  "What if you lost inside NFS?"
 > 
 > What if you lost inside one of your disk controller drivers?  Or what
 > if your disk controller itself lost?  Either of those could cause
 > dumps to spew random data to the wrong place on the disk.
 > 
 > Why is NFS any different?

Yes, I see your point, and I knew that was coming :-)

In one sense, it's not.  In another, the way dumps are done to disk typically
involves a relatively short code path... put NFS in there, and suddenly you
involve the krpc code, udp code, ip code, ethernet drivers (which may play
tricky mbuf games), buffer cache, etc.

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