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Re: RC dependencies and LVM



> What about savecore?  Savecore presumably requires a clean file
> system, but it needs to read from swap.  (I realize that that's a
> problem now, if fsck actually swaps as opposed to just needing the
> service available in case it does.)

I always thought kernel cores were written to the _end_ of swap for
exactly that reason.  (I don't know whether NetBSD puts them at the end
of dumpdev rather than the beginning, but for the sake of the common
case where swapdev==dumpdev I would hope so.)

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