On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:05:09PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > > I do understand the reasons why you would want to dump to a virtual > construct. I am just not very comfortable with the concept. > > My instinct is that you want the fewest layers of software involved in > the event of a system crashdump.
Hmmm, that's a good point. If ZFS is what caused the panic, you aren't guaranteed to get a crashdump to be able to diagnose what went wrong. Maybe raw dump devices aren't such a bad idea after all. ;) On that note, does anyone know what the rule of thumb on dump size is? RAM size? RAM+swap? -brian -- "Perl can be fast and elegant as much as J2EE can be fast and elegant. In the hands of a skilled artisan, it can and does happen; it's just that most of the shit out there is built by people who'd be better suited to making sure that my burger is cooked thoroughly." -- Jonathan Patschke _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
