Re: ZFS-Only FreeBSD and crashdump

28.04.2011 22:25, Yuri Pankov wrote:
Why not just use your swap partition as dumpdev?
For example?
When ZFS is started, it initializes the swap and core dump data will be erased, not having to perform savecore?

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