Geert Hendrickx writes:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 07:50:01PM -0600, Greg Oster wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Just a "headsup" that -current now supports kernel core dumps to RAID 1
> > sets.  Like any regular swap partition, if your swap is on RAID 1 and is
> > large enough, you don't need a separate dump device to be configured.  In
> > the unfortunate event that your kernel crashes and you have a RAID 1 set
> > configured as your dump device, the dumping and savecore operations now
> > work with the raid(4) device.
> > 
> > (And no, there are no plans to support anything other than RAID 1 sets.
> > :) )
> 
> 
> Cool, this will save us a lot of FAQ on the mailing list. :-)
> 
> How much work was required for this? 

Much less than I expected -- and it's all self-contained to the 
raiddump() function.

> Would it be possible to get this
> pulled up into 3.x and 4.x release branches?

I will be requesting pullups for both once the code has had time to 
live in -current for a little while... (and I or someone else has had 
a chance to verify that it'll work fine in 3.x and 4.x)

Later...

Greg Oster