Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API

Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28T15:21:47Z

--Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote (on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 15:06:27 +0100):

> On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 15:38, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> After kexec, we shouldn't need such things, do we? Before it, Linus won't
>> take the patch, as he said he doesn't like systems in unstable states doing
>> crashdumps to disk ...
>
> And what does kexec do.. it accesses the disk. A SHA signed standalone
> dumper is as safe as anything else if not safer.

But it's reading, not writing ... personally I'm happier with that bit ;-)

M.