Re: Introducing localcount(9)

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Tue, 16 May 2017 16:47:24 -0700
    From:        Chuck Silvers <chuq%chuq.com@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <20170516234724.GB11062%spathi.chuq.com@localhost>

  | and a device being configured as a dump device should also
  | involve keeping a reference on the device_t (probably indirectly via
  | the device being kept open while it is configured as a dump device).

Wouldn't that prevent the dump device being used for swapping (ie: the
common setup where dumps just overwrite swap when the system crashes) ?

Or at least I'd hope that enabling swapping on an open device is prevented!

kre