Re: Saving the kernel log accross boots

2009-06-26 Thread Martin Meuli
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:29:54 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > Before digging any deeper I would like to know if someone as a better > (more general) idea. Could you stuff the output into an MTD device? For that, see CONFIG_MTD_OOPS. Thak's looks great. Right now we have a watchdog without O

Re: [PATCH 00/14] Pramfs: Persistent and protected ram filesystem

2009-06-26 Thread Jamie Lokier
Marco Stornelli wrote: > 2009/6/24 Jamie Lokier : > > Marco wrote: > >> > Second question: what happens if the system crashing _during_ a write > >> > to a file.  Does it mean that file will fail it's checksum when it's > >> > read at the next boot? > >> > > >> > Maybe files aren't so important.  W

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-26 Thread Robin Getz
OK - so after a bit more digging into things (and a poke by Mike) - I think most of the stuff already exists. Normal run time issues: -- - MTD_OOPS - on 2007-06-28 this was added to Linus's tree: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/18/234 CONFIG_MTD_OOPS tristate "

Re: [PATCH 00/14] Pramfs: Persistent and protected ram filesystem

2009-06-26 Thread Marco
Jamie Lokier wrote: > Marco Stornelli wrote: >> 2009/6/24 Jamie Lokier : >>> Marco wrote: >>> If it loses power when doing atomic rename (to replace config files, >>> for example), it's likely that the whole /pramfs/configs/ directory >>> will be corrupt, because the rename is writing to the direct

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-26 Thread David VomLehn
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:39:50AM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: > OK - so after a bit more digging into things (and a poke by Mike) - I think > most of the stuff already exists. > > Normal run time issues: > -- > - MTD_OOPS - on 2007-06-28 this was added to Linus's tree: >

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 13:42, David VomLehn wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:39:50AM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: >> OK - so after a bit more digging into things (and a poke by Mike) - I think >> most of the stuff already exists. >> >> Normal run time issues: >> -- >>  - MTD

Re: Kernel crashing and log buffers...

2009-06-26 Thread Robin Getz
On Fri 26 Jun 2009 13:42, David VomLehn pondered: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:39:50AM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: > > OK - so after a bit more digging into things (and a poke by Mike) - I > think > > most of the stuff already exists. > > > > Normal run time issues: > > -- >