Re: [concept & "good taste" review] persistent store

David Howells
2010-12-20T10:51:28Z

Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure how big the store is on my system ... the ACPI/ERST
> interface on this machine limits each entry to just under 8KB. But
> that isn't inherent to to ERST, both larger and smaller values would
> be an option. 8K seems quite useful for kmsg_dump purposes as
> it grabs a significant number of lines leading up to the oops/panic.

How are things written to the store? Is it a record-based affair?

David