Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2004 18:33:18 +0900 | From | Takao Indoh <> | Subject | [PATCH]Diskdump - yet another crash dump function |
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Although I know about LKCD and netdump, I'm developing yet another crash dump, which is a polling-based disk dump as netdump do. Because it disables any interrupts during doing dump, it can avoid lots of problems LKCD has.
Main Feature - Reliability Diskdump disables interrupts, stops other cpus and writes to the disk with polling mode. Therefore, unnecessary functions(like interrupt handler) don't disturb dumping. - Safety Before writing to the disk, diskdump checks its disk partition to confirm whether it is a really dump device. Therefore, diskdump doesn't overwrite filesystems by mistake.
Currently, diskdump supports only scsi disk(aic7xxx/aic79xx), but, I'm planning to support IDE disk in the near future.
Diskdump can be downloaded from here. http://sourceforge.net/projects/lkdump Please see readme.txt which can be downloaded from this site.
Any comments?
Best Regards, Takao Indoh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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