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Subject: Re: [concept & "good taste" review] persistent store
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:46:32 +0000
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Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote:

> - for OOPS messages will not cause system panic, it will go to disk and
> will not use up the persistent storage.

You can't guarantee that an oops didn't just kill your ability to actually
write your syslog to disk or out across the network.

David