>>> The issue of cores taking up unnecessary space when a rpool/ROOT is 
>>> cloned is valid.  But disabling savecore does not address it. Either the 
>>> user has to run this by hand everytime (bad!!) or once they enable this 
>>> functionality all subsequent clones now have the issue until they 
>>> disable it.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> I don't understand what you're arguing for here.
>>
>>   
> Comment #6 stated that the issue for disabling savecore was the space 
> taken up when BEs are cloned.   When a user is asked to provide the core 
> how does that occur ? Does he run savecore directly or update dumpadm 
> config file.  Either way once savecore is run, the contents are in 
> savecore dir (which for now is /var/crash) and future BE updates will 
> include the cores unless the user deletes them, i.e. the issue will 
> occur the first time coredumps taken and the cores are not removed.

Easy: you tell them the better way to configure things before running 
savecore until its default behavior is fixed.  Something like the 
following 3 commands:

zfs create -o mountpoint=/crashdump rpool/crashdump
dumpadm -s /crashdump
dumpadm -y

Dave


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