Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:52:31 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/9] Add blockconsole version 1.1 (try 2) |
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Hi Andrew,
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 04:39:53PM -0500, Joern Engel wrote: > Blockconsole is a console driver very roughly similar to netconsole. > Instead of sending messages out via UDP, they are written to a block > device. Typically a USB stick is chosen, although in principle any > block device will do. > > In most cases blockconsole is useful where netconsole is not, i.e. > single machines without network access or without an accessable > netconsole capture server. When using both blockconsole and > netconsole, I have found netconsole to sometimes create a mess under > high message load (sysrq-t, etc.) while blockconsole does not. > > Most importantly, a number of bugs were identified and fixed that > would have been unexplained machine reboots without blockconsole. > > More highlights: > * reasonably small and self-contained code, > * some 100+ machine years of runtime, > * nice tutorial with a 30-sec guide for the impatient.
any thoughts on this?
Blockconsole is very useful in certain situations and a bunch of people are using it already and it would be nice if we could get it moving towards upstream.
So I'd appreciate it if you could take a look and maybe even pick it up if there are no serious issues with it.
Thanks a bunch.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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