On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 21:36, Rob Weir wrote: > > When the kernel crashes, there's no way for it to be able to know that > it's state is consistent. Because of this, it's not safe for it to try > to write to disks (since it could easily destroy everything on the > disks). > > The best it can manage is to write an 'oops' to the screen. You';; have > to either write this down manually off the screen, or plug in a serial > console and tell the kernel to dump oopses onto the serial port.
Other unixes seem to manage to dump to the swap partition - is there some significant difference that make this impractical/more dangerous for Linux? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
