On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 09:27:10AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
> 
> Well, we effectively do that already --  there's significant overlap in the
> makedumpfile and crash code bases as it is.  (When I look at the makedumpfile
> code, it's like deja vu all over again...)
> 
> But that's not the point.  The part of the diskdump code in the crash utility
> that handles the compressed data access is remarkably small.  All I'm
> suggesting is that since makedumpfile's chore when dealing with the
> intermediate file is basically to put it back in the order used by the 
> diskdump
> compressed file format, why couldn't the crash utility just be modified to 
> deal
> with the intermediate file format as is?

> That way there'd be no need to
> worry about what's installed on the remote repository, it would just need
> to be some type of simple data warehouse.
> 

This is an interesting point. So if "crash" can read the intermediate file,
we don't have to have makedumpfile installed on remote machine to analyze 
the core dump.

Thanks
Vivek
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