On 4/12/2010 2:07 PM, Mike Shapiro wrote:
> We do not want any windows of time where there is no dump device
> configured, which is why we considered this during the original
> project and specifically did not do it.  If someone has a zvol
> dedicated dump device, set -d swap to deconfigure it.
Does ZFS support sharing one device for both Swap and dump? If so great,
I'd rather see that be the default for new installs. Seeing as though
currently new installs go out of their way to create a separate dump
device, I tend to think that ZFS can't support that now.

> We made a very deliberate design decision when implementing dumpadm
> that the objective of having an enterprise OS with crash dumps enabled
> by default is that if you want to deconfigure a dedicated dump device,
> then the way you do that is by setting the dump device back to swap.
Maybe that should be reconsidered, now that OpenSolaris is being
targeted at least as much ifnot more at the home/hobbiest/developer
segment as it is the Enterprise. For those uses there may actually be
cases where not collecting dumps is perfectly acceptable and should be
allowed.

  -Kyle


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