Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:06:24 -0800 | From | "Steven King" <> | Subject | Re: What's left over. |
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On Friday 01 November 2002 11:18 am, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> To add insult to injury, you will not be able to actually _test_ any of > the real error paths in real life. Sure, you will be able to test forced > dumps on _your_ hardware, but while that is fine in the AIX model ("we > control the hardware, and charge the user five times what it is worth"), > again that doesn't mean _squat_ in the PC hardware space.
On the other hand, ISC's system 5 r3 ran on commodity x86 hardware and the crash dumper worked on the various disk hardware I had occasion to use it on (mfm, scsi, ide), although one did need to make sure swap was larger than ram or bad things would happen. 8-{. - 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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