Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 May 1999 22:29:32 +0100 (BST) | From | David Welch <> | Subject | Re: Oops assist... |
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On Wed, 5 May 1999, Horst von Brand wrote: > > What about the swap file? > > I don't trust the kernel enough to fiddle around with disks when it has > just crashed...
Perhaps disk drivers could register a pointer to a routine which just writes directly to the hardware. Since we know in advance where the sectors of the swapfile are, it could bypass the filesystem. Provided the disk driver is working it shouldn't be dangerous.
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