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From: Tarkan Erimer <tarkan.erimer@turknet.net.tr>
To: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Cc: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Failover Kernel
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:21:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49AC0799.5060306@turknet.net.tr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1235749850.4718.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Lubomir Rintel wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>   
Kdump's backup (in kdump terms, it is "Capture Kernel") kernel is with 
minimal set of features and modules (scsi drivers, network drivers etc.) 
to have small memory footprint and resources to just handle crash dump 
related things. So,it's not a full replacement of primary kernel. Also, 
the point is not to make boot when crash occured. The idea is to take 
control when a crash occured by backup kernel without any need to reboot.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-02 16:22 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
2009-03-02 16:21       ` Tarkan Erimer [this message]
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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