Re: DFly-stable as of April 1st crashed, but no crash dump was possible due to ips driver being unable to do crash dumps

[Tomaž Borštnar <tomaz.borstnar@xxxxxxxx>]

YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> > boot() called on cpu#0
> >
> > syncing disks...
>
>
> This is strange; looking at the code responsible for the sync on
> panic, it should not print the message "syncing disks" when
> sync_on_panic is set to zero(i.e. (bootopt & RB_NOSYNC) != 0).
nope, I added this later - after 2nd crash.


> As for dump feature on ips driver, sorry I haven't had enough time
> to port it. I asked Scott Long many months ago for his work-in-progress
> dump patch(which has already been committed on FreeBSD 5.x+), and he gave
So it is part of 5.3+ now? Because older FreeBSDs have the same problem 
- stuck in syncing disks.

> it to me, but I couldn't finish porting it then. I'm still trying to find
> time to work on it though.
btw: how is your controller configured as far as read and write caching 
are concerned?

Tomaž