On 8/12/09, Alan Hargreaves <Alan.Hargreaves at sun.com> wrote: > It's not completely clear to me from the notes whether or not to uncompress > a vmdump.N needs to be done on the machine that generated the vmdump.N, or > if it can be done anywhere else. From a support perspective, the latter > would be nice. i.e. Customer uploads a vmcore.N to us and we uncompress it.
Storing the file as compressed data is not as easy as you think. You will need a specialized unpack command as the stock version of /usr/bin/bunzip does not handle sparse files, vmdump.N is sparse and mdb will no longer be able to access the files via mmap(2). Irek
