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. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
