On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jan 10, 2009 16:15 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> In my experience, there are very few kernel versions and hardware for >> which kdump works. I've talked to the people who have to make kdump >> work, and every 12-18 months, with a new set of enterprise kernels >> comes out, they have to go and fix kdump so it works again for the set >> of hardware that they care about, and for the kernel version involved. > > I'm sad that netconsole/netdump never made it big. It was fairly useful, > and extending the eth drivers to add the polling mode was trivial to do. > We were using that for a few years, but it got replaced by kdump and it > appears to be less usable IMHO. Less usable in terms of ease of configuration and use? Or reliability? In practice netdump's non-interrupt-driven polling mode proved fairly reliable but it seems to me kdump provides more reliable dumping than netdump. Because you're performing the kdump from a reliable new dump kernel (provided the initial kexec transition to the dump kernel works properly). Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
