Op do 9 mei 2019 10:05 schreef Ronny Meeus <[email protected]>: > > Hello > > I'm using the pstore feature to log kernel crashes. > > What I observe is that after reboot, always 2 entries are present in the > pstore: > > ls -l /mnt/pstore > total 0 > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 16372 Jan 1 00:00 dmesg-ramoops-0 > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 16372 Jan 1 00:00 dmesg-ramoops-1 > > If I do not delete the entries and force a new crash, only 2 new > entries are available > after the system is online again and the older entries are overwritten. > > The reason for this is that the write index is always initialized to 0 > during init. > Is this intentional? I would expect that existing entries are kept > until they are explicitly > deleted or the storage is full. In the latter case the oldest entries > can be replaced. > > Best regards, > Ronny
Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks
