Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kiobuf using kernel pagest | Date | Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:56:24 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> |>Firstly if your machine has crashed I wouldnt recommend invoking the scsi > |>disk layer. If your partition info is corrupt or the scsi malloc pool is > |>corrupt you could hit anything. > > Considering it's to a swap partition, I doubt there's a problem here. > The SCBs should be doing to the device specified by /dev/vmdump - no > other.
The offsets for partitions come from tables in ram. If those are corrupt you splatter the disk.
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