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

Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28T14:39:13Z

--Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote (on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:46:06 +0100):

> On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 11:54, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 07:53:01PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
>> >
>> > > Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > * How do we get a clean API to do polling mode I/O to disk?
>> > >
>> > > We hope to not have to. The current plan is to use kexec: at boot time, do
>
> If you are prepared to say "dump device is IDE" the driver ends up
> pretty tiny - maybe 4K for PIO mode.

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 ...

M.