Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:53:42 -0800 (PST) | From | Matt Robinson <> | Subject | Re: kiobuf using kernel pagest |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Alan Cox wrote: |>> |>Firstly if your machine has crashed I wouldnt recommend invoking the scsi |>> |>disk layer. If your partition info is corrupt or the scsi malloc pool is |>> |>corrupt you could hit anything. |>> |>> Considering it's to a swap partition, I doubt there's a problem here. |>> The SCBs should be doing to the device specified by /dev/vmdump - no |>> other. |> |>The offsets for partitions come from tables in ram. If those are corrupt you |>splatter the disk.
Not to be too blunt, but how often would you expect this to be the case? If this happens, you're likely to have already caused problems with your disk and things would be trashed already. Many versions of UNIX have used this method of dumping to disk for many, many, many, (should I go on?), many years with great success. If Linux is the exception to the rule here, because the scsi tables or malloc pool are corrupted, then there's something fundamentally wrong with the implementation.
I agree it's a risk, however an _extremely_ small one at best, and I'd never take odds in Las Vegas on that problem occuring unless intentionally triggered (in which case, the bet was fixed). :)
--Matt
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