Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:07:25 +0100 | | From | Matthew Garrett <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 2/3] Hold multiple logs |
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 08:54:59PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > Now we panic. Pstore asks EFI "Do you have any space?" EFI replies "No". Pstore can't even overwrite > one of the old OOPs records ... because it thinks they have all been erased. So we lose the panic > log.
I think we inevitably lose in that scenario. I'd need to verify, but my recollection is that overwriting existing variables may be equivalent to a delete/create cycle.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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