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    SubjectRe: The stability crisis
    Hi!

    > having a nice integrated kernel debugger like SGI's kdb would be great
    > to resolve problems like these. the patch to dump an oops to a floppy is
    > also good, but would it be possible to dump it to a file or a small
    > partition on an internal disk instead? Linus, including a feature like
    > that would make it a whole lot easier to get high quality oops reports to
    > developers.

    No. Dumping to on-disk partition is _very_ risky, because it is easy
    to miss the right partition. Floppy is much safer because it is much
    harder to hit harddisk this way.
    Pavel
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