Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/7] Diskdump 1.0 Release

Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-29T11:22:06Z

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 19:35 +0900, Takao Indoh wrote:
> Hi, all!
> I release diskdump 1.0 for kernel 2.6.9. It can be downloaded from
> the following site. Please feel free to use it!
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/lkdump
>
> Diskdump project is a joint development of RedHat and Fujitsu, and I'd

I think the company name is spelled Red Hat ;)

> like to express my gratitude to a RedHat developers for many comments
> and advices.

Can you explain to me why anyone would want to use this invasive patch
(it requires all drivers to change) instead of the kexec-dump approach? The
kexec-dump approach appears on first sight to be far cleaner and far more powerful,
so there must be a reason this work was done regardless of that.. I'm curious
what those reasons are, eg what's the advantage ???