Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Jul 28 2004 - 10:10:45 EST


On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 15:38, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> After kexec, we shouldn't need such things, do we? Before it, Linus won't
> take the patch, as he said he doesn't like systems in unstable states doing
> crashdumps to disk ...

And what does kexec do.. it accesses the disk. A SHA signed standalone
dumper is as safe as anything else if not safer.

Alan

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