On Thu, 2 May 2002, Oden Eriksson wrote:
> On Thursdayen den 2 May 2002 14.19, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > What I really miss in Linux is ability to take and analyze system dump.
> > Anybody have tried LKCD project? Is it mature enough to be included in
> > released kernel? Is there any interest to have this in kernel at all?
>
> Yes, I would probably find it interesting if it's not too difficult to
> understand. Likewise I find the LTT stuff very interesting too, but there
> were no interest as it seems...
There was a big discussion in the Linux Kernel newsgroup/list about this
issue about 2 weeks ago and it seems that only industry contributors
(i.e. telco's, IBM, ...) wanted to pursue this. The rest of the hackers
"in the wild" and Linus ('s crew) were not at all convinced how event
logging could be useful enough to justify :
1) a major overhaul of the printk/syslog messaging system
or 2) a second, parallel event logging capability
and the associated performance impact for the "average" user. Even
people who volunteered to implement a compilation configuration
construct to minimize the hassle for uninterested users were turned
down rather bluntly. (The next one judging in place of "the user" will be
pointed to the historical Gates blunder of the 640KB limit, on the Linux
Kernel list of course :-)
So, standard kernel support for industrial strength event logging
won't happen in the near future. However, there seems to be a strong
pressure--from companies moving their core control networks to Linux--on
Linux consultancy firms for event logging capabilities. I fear this could
lead to forking or a big turn-down for Linux.
Guy Bormann
