Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 13:24:33 -0700
From: "Greg A. Woods" <wo...@planix.ca>
Message-ID: <m1uLSkr-00Mo5fC@more.local>
| though that would be secondary if there were support to configure a dump
| device after boot. FreeBSD has had a dumpon(8) utility since 2.0.5.
Of course NetBSD can do that, see swapctl(8) -D and more commonly, the "dp"
flag (like "sw" for swap, either one, or both, can be used in a "swap" type
entry) in fstab.
The only conceivable reason I can imagine for wanting to pass dumpdev
via the boot loader would be if the kernel were crashing before getting
init started (no chance to process fstab at all).
kre
