Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 22:49:01 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: The stability crisis |
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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 -- I'm really pavel@ucw.cz. Look at http://195.113.31.123/~pavel. Pavel Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!
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