Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 2004 03:49:35 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Standard filesystem types for crash dumping |
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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.
Have you tried diskdump?
It already exists, and seems to address these things.
Jeff
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