On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:02:30 +0300 Andriy Gapon <a...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> But what was the reason that dumpdev="AUTO" was reverted? > I remember that POLA was quoted at the time. > I am not sure what the astonishment actually was - perhaps 'AUTO' was > not smart enough and destroyed somebody's data? > The problem with "AUTO" is that it takes time to do the dump unless using textdumps; it also has the potential of failing and leaving the system unusable until someone resets it. I believe the argument was that for production servers you want the system to be up and running again as soon as possible after a crash. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
