Not being on any of the kernel mailing lists, I wouldn't know id the following subject has come up, and so I thought I'd ask here if anyone knows of any planned work in this area...
A friend at Sun remarked that supporting Linux at the enterprise level is much harder than supporting Solaris, mainly because Linux has no crash dump facility. That is, when Solaris crashes, it leaves a dump file in the swap area, so that at the next boot, the dump file can be stored away in /var or wherever, for later diagnosis of the kernel and what went wrong. Having lived through a few Linux panics, I have to agree that it has nothing like this - it has something only marginally better than Windows NT's blue screen of death. (At least Linux has ksymoops so that after you have laboriously copied down a text screen full of hex numbers, and then typed them in, you can at least get some symbolic debug info. So it's better than Windows, but it's a painful process.) Does anyone know whether something more like Solaris's kind of facility is being planned for Linux? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
