Re: 5.0 and raid1 - kernel dump clarification

[Greg Oster <oster%cs.usask.ca@localhost>]

Carl Brewer writes:
> 
> I'm setting up raid1 on my new amd64 box, and the guide implies that 
> there's no need to do old-school magic with a calculator to work out 
> where kernel dumps go with the mapping of swap on the underlying drives 
> and the raid setup if you're using NetBSD 5.0
> 
> Is it correct to say that you can ignore all of section 16.3.7 of the 
> guide if you're running 5.0+ and that kernel dumps will just 
> automagically go into the raid swap space instead of trashing things?

That is correct.  (perhaps the wording should be adjusted to make 
that more clear...)

Later...

Greg Oster