Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:38 -0700 | From | "Aaron J. Grier" <> | Subject | Re: The stability crisis |
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On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 05:20:36PM -0400, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
> How about dumping to the swap partition along with a special sequence of > bytes used as a flag. This way when the machine is brought back up the > kernel can then use that special sequence of bytes along with the debug data > to generate a bug report.
Although I kind of like this "feature," if your OS is wigging out, there are no guarantees that you're actually writing data to the swap partition. Especially if it's a driver problem, you might end up writing junk to your root partition, blowing away your parition table, or worse.
I do think something like this would be nice to have as an _option_ for the adventurous. I certainly find it useful from time to time on my NetBSD boxes.
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