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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:42:27 +0800
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 06/11] dump: add API to write dump header
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To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: stefanha@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com, anderson@redhat.com, kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp, akong@redhat.com, afaerber@suse.de

On 01/14/2014 10:29 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> I can't really provide any input to that decision -- I have no clue
> which tools support which format. The non-flat (ie. random-access,
> regular file) format appears more space- and computation-efficient, and
> I thought that would be the "natural" choice. The flat (non-seekable)
> format was a surprise to me -- I wouldn't have thought that any debugger
> could directly consume that format.

The flat-mode comes from makedumpfile as kdump-compressed format, and crash
utility has already supported it.

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Qiao Nuohan