On 15/03/18 00:32, Tinker wrote: > Hi, > > I normally won't use any swap, and if it gets utilized then low > performance would be fine, so normally using a swap file would be > satisfactory for all my swap needs. > > That is, if it was not for OS crash dumps. I like to catch those (to > encrypted media) as they can provide insight into the reasons for > system crash e.g. resolve hardware instability or kernel bug. >
The system is designed for the developers not the users. > Dumps are stored to the "dump device", which is the swap partition on > the system disk - and that has the consequence that dumps never are > stored to swap files, right? > > Is there a deliberate thought here that a crash could happen in the > filesystem logics so therefore better write dumps only directly to > partitions, or is this for historic reasons only e.g. noone bothered > consider giving "dump device" a wider definition? > > http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.2/crash > http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.2/savecore > http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.2/swapon > > Thanks, > Tinker >
