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

	Geert