Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Nov 2002 07:26:57 -0700 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: What's left over. |
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On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:48:30AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > On 1 Nov 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 06:34, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > From the standpoint of just the driver that's true. However, the remote > > > machine and all the network bits between them are a string of single > > > points of failure. Isn't it good that both disk and network can be > > > supported. > > > > My concerns are solely with things like the correctness of the disk > > dumper. Its obviously a good way to do a lot more damage if it isnt done > > carefully. Quite clearly your dump system wants to support multiple dump > > targets so you can dump to pci battery backed ram, down the parallel > > port to an analysing box etc > > Quite clearly SCO, Sun, and IBM have been doing this for years without > offering dozens of options. I don't need it to sing and dance, I just need > a way to put the dump where I can find it. I'm not going to put another > box in at the end of a serial or parallel port, I don't have NVram, I do > have lopts of disk, and so does almost everyone else. I have remote > systems in wiring closets all over the country (all four time zones). They > are at the end of open net connections, unreliable and untrusted. I don't > want to bet that I have a working VPN, or that I can safely send all that > data without it being read by someone other than me. > > The AIX support has a group just to beat on dumps customers send. What > more evidence is needed that people can and do use the capability. > > I had hoped that someone would do this for Linux, I never dreamed that
You paid someone for this for AIX. So the solution is obvious for Linux.
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