From: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
To: Tarkan Erimer <tarkan.erimer@turknet.net.tr>
Cc: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Failover Kernel
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:50:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1235749850.4718.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A80796.2070208@turknet.net.tr>
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 17:32 +0200, Tarkan Erimer wrote:
> Diego Calleja wrote:
> > Isn't this what kdump does right now? http://lwn.net/Articles/108595/
> >
>
> Yep, very similar to "kdump". But, kdump is too simple. Backup kernel is
> just so minimal and only to handle crash dump thing. With "Failover
> kernel", I'm talking about fully functional backup kernel like primary
> one. Not just too minimally functioning crash dump kernel.
How is the backup kernel minimal? It is usually the very same kernel as
the "primary" one. You can use the same initrd as well and do a full
multiuser boot.
--
Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-27 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-26 8:58 Failover Kernel Tarkan Erimer
2009-02-26 16:03 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-02-27 15:25 ` Tarkan Erimer
2009-02-26 17:02 ` Diego Calleja
2009-02-27 15:32 ` Tarkan Erimer
2009-02-27 15:50 ` Lubomir Rintel [this message]
2009-03-02 16:21 ` Tarkan Erimer
2009-03-03 3:29 ` David Newall
2009-03-04 8:29 ` Tarkan Erimer
2009-03-06 1:10 ` david
2009-03-09 12:35 ` Tarkan Erimer
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