Re: [lkdump-develop] Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/7] Diskdump 1.0 Release

Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-30T12:35:59Z

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:15 +0900, Takao Indoh wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:45:13 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> >>
> >> I think kexec-dump is not stable yet.
> >
> >Do you have any facts to back this up? Is your project more stable ?
> >What is the success rate of dumps of diskdump ? How does that compare to
> >kexec-dump under the same circumstances ?
>
> Sorry, a word "stable" was not appropriate. I meant that kexec-dump was
> under development yet.

well diskdump seems to be quite under development as well; only a subset
of drivers is supported and your latest release just added initial
support for several architectures.

> kexec-dump works well on i386/x86_64, but it is
> in the development stage on other architectures.

not too different from diskdump then...

>
> >> I heard that kexec-dump of
> >> some architecture (ex. ia64) had some problems and not worked.
> >
> >wouldn't it be better to then help finish that rather than making an
> >alternative ?
>
> It is, if diskdump project just started now. But the basic code of
> diskdump is almost completed. I think it is more efficient to enhance
> quality of diskdump than help kexec-dump.

You are obviously free to spend your time wherever you want to, even though I do not agree with your reasoning.