Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:36:03 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chuck Lever <> | Subject | Re: The stability crisis |
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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Pavel Machek wrote: > No. Dumping to on-disk partition is _very_ risky, because it is easy > to miss the right partition. Floppy is much safer because it is much > harder to hit harddisk this way.
i can't believe that the stable series of kernels used for desktop workstations and production servers would be as pathological. sure, device driver work etc. can lead to potential destructiveness... but developers understand that risk.
how hard can it be to provide a small area of memory that is hardware-protected from the kernel to allow safe interactive debugging or oops processing? how does the RTLinux kernel protect itself from the standard Linux kernel?
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