Subject: Re: README: changes to config, to support dump device configuration
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jim Wise <jimw@numenor.turner.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/14/1997 20:07:34
On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> It follows the same rules as the old "wildcarded swap" device used to...
>
> If root device is a disk, dumps go on partition 'b' of that
> disk. Else, disable dumps.
>
> Swap is now totally unrelated to dumps.
Perhaps a dumpon() API is in order, sometime down the road?
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Jim Wise
jim.wise@turner.com