Messages in this thread | | | From | "Deepak Kumar Gupta, Noida" <> | Subject | RE: [lkcd-devel] Re: [RFC] Standard filesystem types for crash du mping | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:42:24 +0530 |
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Keith Owens wrote: > Follow ups to lkml please, to keep any discussion on the same list. > > Several kernel additions exist for saving crash dump information, among > them are lkcd, crash, kmsgdump. They all have the same problems :- > > * Where to store the crash data. > * How to write data when the kernel is unreliable, it may not be > servicing interrupts. > * User space needs to read and clear the dump data. > * Performance! > * Coexistence of multiple dump drivers.
jeff>Have you tried diskdump?
jeff> It already exists, and seems to address these things.
I guess this RFC proposes a common interface (can be used all the dumping mechanisms available in Linux kernel) to handle the above points. And diskdump is specific to LKCD only.
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