Re: bug tracking
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
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