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re: dump to cgdNb device



> That means that either cpu_dump or the next function returned ENXIO.
> The code is very careful to dump only on partitions that are marked as
> swap and on devices it knows about to avoid accidents. Dumping on
> "software" devices is very dangerous since typically when you are dumping
> you've probably corrupted memory already.

i've never heard of anyone having a corrupted file system because
of a bad dump, and this is across a large number of systems and
years.  while this case is certainly possible, it seems to be
highly improbable.

we've supported dump to raid for a long while now, and it's very
useful.  dump to cgd should work, too.


.mrg.


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