On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 06:11:35PM +0800, Andreas Dilger wrote: > 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. The netdump I'm familiar with had the misfeature that it didn't do packet retransmission, so when it was used on a customer network with any amount of traffic, packets would get dropped and the crash dump would utterly fail. I honestly can't remember which enterprise distro shipped it, but I can't say I was terribly impressed. :-( - Ted -- 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
