Chris, if this is specific to Fedora, there is another list for the topic:kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On 06/27/18 at 09:17am, Chris Murphy wrote: > Hi, > > Buried in this Fedora thread on the BootLoaderSpec, is the discussion on the > technical merit (or not) of using VFAT for /boot which is currently > where kdump drops the vmcore dumpfiles. So I'm wondering if > there are any developer concerns about dumps going to VFAT and also if > a viable work around is putting crash dumps in /var instead? Fedora kdump drop initramfs in /boot, but the vmcore be saved in /var/crash by default > > For reference, BootLoaderSpec in effect requires VFAT for $BOOT which > would contain bootloader configuration, kernel, initramfs, and would > be mounted at /boot One can configure kdump to save vmcore in /boot, but if using VFAT I believe there is a 2G max file size limitation that may be not enough for big memory machine. > > Fedora thread to make BootLoaderSpec default in Fedora 29 (note that > really this feature only implements BootLoaderSpec file format for > bootloader configuration; not the full spec that includes the VFAT > requirement - that's still under discussion). > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/CTKJBECHWEVF5IN6FO5TV7SIYWIMKYRT/ > > > BootLoaderSpec > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/doc/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION.md Thanks for sharing. Interesting idea, hmm, it belongs to systemd.. Thanks Dave _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
