Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:23:09 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: What's left over. |
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On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I dealt with crash dumps quite a lot over 10 years with SCO UNIX, > OpenServer and UnixWare: which were addressing the PC market, not > own hardware. > > It's a real worry that writing a crash dump to disk might stomp in the > wrong place, but I don't recall it ever happening in practice. But > occasionally, yes, a dump was not generated at all, or not completed.
IIRC, some years ago wuarchive.wustl.edu went down for a few days because the machine paniced and dumped to the wrong partition...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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