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

Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-29T12:48:46Z

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 21:34 +0900, Takao Indoh wrote:
> The problem of kexec-dump is that initialization of devices depends
> on the quality of device driver when kexec reboots system. Sometimes the
> device drivers tacitly rely on the firmware to initialize them.

thankfully linux has very very few of those nowadays...

>
> Anyway, most important point is that kexec-dump is not available enough
> now.

How is that ?
>
> 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 ?

> 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 ?