Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped /kernel ?]

From: Michael Nottebrock (michaelnottebrock_at_gmx.net)
Date: 10/21/04

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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:50:39 +0200

    On Wednesday, 20. October 2004 23:29, Matthew Dillon wrote:

    > In fact, we enable core dumps in our installs now and once we fix up
    > /var/crash's size (for new installs), even total newbies will be able to
    > provide useful cores to us.

    It's probably a good idea for dragonfly to try and get backtraces from kernel
    panics from as many joe-e.-adoppters as possible - new project, many
    experiments, not much of real world deployment yet, etc, etc.

    However, do we really need this on FreeBSD? Is the project in that bad a shape
    and/or do developers have so few time to spare these days for reproducing
    crashes now? How many mails per day about kernel panics where people have no
    clue about how to get a stack trace are coming in on the -current mailing
    list daily? I don't see that many. Better invest the time and some additional
    disk-space into (running) more regression testing tools.

    JMTC. 

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