Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [lkdump-develop] Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/7] Diskdump 1.0 Release | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:45:13 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 21:34 +0900, Takao Indoh wrote: > The problem of kexec-dump is that initialization of devices depends > on the quality of device driver when kexec reboots system. Sometimes the > device drivers tacitly rely on the firmware to initialize them.
thankfully linux has very very few of those nowadays...
> > Anyway, most important point is that kexec-dump is not available enough > now.
How is that ? > > I think kexec-dump is not stable yet.
Do you have any facts to back this up? Is your project more stable ? What is the success rate of dumps of diskdump ? How does that compare to kexec-dump under the same circumstances ?
> I heard that kexec-dump of > some architecture (ex. ia64) had some problems and not worked.
wouldn't it be better to then help finish that rather than making an alternative ?
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