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

[YONETANI Tomokazu]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 04:28:52AM +0200, Tomaž Borštnar wrote:
> 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.

Ah, I see.

> >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.

Actually, the feature is in HEAD and RELENG_5, but not in any -RELEASEes
yet.  But I don't think not having dump support caused `stuck in syncing
disks' problem; when there's no dump support, it just does nothing and it
immediately shows a prompt `Automatic reboot in %d seconds -'.

> >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?

I probably can't answer this question until tomorrow(I don't have console
access to the server right now), but IIRC it hasn't been changed from the
default.