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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: SS2 clone sync and halt
- Message-ID: <16319@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 22:57:59 GMT
- References: <1519@krabat.marco.de>
- Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >- After breaking the kernel with L1-A, I change to "new-mode".
- > typing "sync" tells "panic: zero", syncs the harddisk and dumps
- > the system afterwards (because of the panic ?), which is boring.
-
- If it didn't do that, it wouldn't be a clone! That is *PRECISELY* what
- "sync" is *supposed* to do.
-
- "sync" is, arguably, a crappy name; it might have been better had it
- been called "crash", because it's intended to be used when a machine is
- "stuck" (e.g. hung in some kind of loop in the kernel) - it causes the
- machine to panic, so that it:
-
- 1) attempts to sync the disks out;
-
- 2) takes a crash dump so that somebody can look at it and see
- *why* it was stuck.
-