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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:00:23 -0800
From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: What's left over.
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On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:26:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> My concerns are solely with things like the correctness of the disk
> dumper. Its obviously a good way to do a lot more damage if it isnt done
> carefully.

	I always liked the AIX dumper choices.  You could either dump to
the swap area (and startup detects the dump and moves it to the
filesystem before swapon) or provide a dedicated dump partition.  The
latter was prefered.
	Either of these methods merely require the dumper to correctly
write to one disk partition.  This is about as simple as you are going
to get in disk dumping.

Joel

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