[plug] Kernel logs

[Craig Ringer]

>>I think there are patches out there to do both network and
>>swap crash dumps, though.
> 
> I hope you don't possibly mean that the kernel would come without disk
> dumps, because not all networks (if you have a network) are going to
> support network dumps, aren't they?? E.g. there's an old BSD netdump
> hack and if it fails, the default mechanism (disk device) is used.

What I meant was that there are separate patches to enable either style 
of crash dump. One patch to give the system the ability to dump the core 
over a network, another to dump the core to swap where it can be 
recovered after reboot. Currently AFAIK neither have been merged into 
the main kernel nor are there signs of that happening, but it looks like 
network crash dumps are /more/ likely to get integrated.

Craig Ringer


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