On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:03:59PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 21:36, Rob Weir wrote: > > > > When the kernel crashes, there's no way for it to be able to know that > > it's state is consistent. Because of this, it's not safe for it to try > > to write to disks (since it could easily destroy everything on the > > disks). > > > > The best it can manage is to write an 'oops' to the screen. You';; have > > to either write this down manually off the screen, or plug in a serial > > console and tell the kernel to dump oopses onto the serial port. > > Other unixes seem to manage to dump to the swap partition - is there > some significant difference that make this impractical/more dangerous > for Linux?
I believe that 2.5 has this capability now too. I'm not sure what's changed though to make it safe. -rob
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