From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761401AbZCZXe7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:34:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754735AbZCZXeu (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:34:50 -0400 Received: from eastrmmtao107.cox.net ([68.230.240.59]:40367 "EHLO eastrmmtao107.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753002AbZCZXet (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:34:49 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 3563 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:34:49 EDT X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=5DpXERbgOHSuG6ebSiIA:9 a=_qvrAfbDX7wXqJYSl8wA:7 a=XNp8HCCRyhwTnlLRUklc58PQzlEA:4 a=77UB_OrJ-6MA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <49CC032C.20001@cox.net> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:35:24 -0400 From: Mark User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: compressed elf core dumps Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have a patch set based of a slightly older kernel which offers compressed(gzip) core dumps. These files compress exceptionally well. This feature can be helpful for embedded linux systems with smaller file systems. The core dumps can be taken off line, un-compressed and analyzed. If there's any interest, I'll update the patch and post it.