Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > - for OOPS messages will not cause system panic, it will go to disk and > > > will not use up the persistent storage. > > > > You can't guarantee that an oops didn't just kill your ability to actually > > write your syslog to disk or out across the network. > > I do not need to guarantee that. If the OOPS message can not be written > to disk, just keeping it in persistent storage, and that is the very > value of persistent storage. But for OOPS can go to disk safely, we do > not need to waste persistent storage for it. My point is how do you know an oops message will actually manage to get to disk? There's a userspace program (syslogd) between the kernel log and the disk or network. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
