On 12/23/-58 20:59, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 12:57:06 +0100 (BST) > Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> (7) I'm in DDB and I suddenly realize I want to save the output, and I >> haven't >> configured textdumps. What do I do? >> >> As with normal dumps, you must previously have configured support for a dump >> partition. These days, that is done automatically whenever you have swap >> configured on the box, so unless you're in single-user mode or don't have >> swap >> configured, you should be able to do the following: > > > First of all, thanks Robert - I am definitely not capable to debug kernel > crash, but the fact there are tools out there to make things easier is > definitely welcome ! :) > > What happens if one encrypts the swap with GELI? Is this the same case as > "no swap defined" ? I've found back in 6.x that dumps wouldn't work properly > (I cant remember whether it would dump the data into the current encrypted > disk, or geli would kick in before savedump on reboot....) Since then I have a > separate partition for the dumps defined in rc.conf and dumps work ok .
Norberto, while the system is experiencing a panic, it does not have any knowledge about filesystems and also does not know about the GELI swap space anymore. In this situation the geli encrypted swap will be overwritten by a dump (either minidump or the classical one). When the system boots up again, it will check $dumpdev for a dump and save it to $savecore before geli swap is brought up again. Or in short: geli backed swap should not do you any harm. Volker _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"