From: Arjan v. de V. <ar...@in...> - 2004-11-30 12:35:59
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On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:15 +0900, Takao Indoh wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:45:13 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >> > >> I think kexec-dump is not stable yet. > > > >Do you have any facts to back this up? Is your project more stable ? > >What is the success rate of dumps of diskdump ? How does that compare to > >kexec-dump under the same circumstances ? > > Sorry, a word "stable" was not appropriate. I meant that kexec-dump was > under development yet. well diskdump seems to be quite under development as well; only a subset of drivers is supported and your latest release just added initial support for several architectures. > kexec-dump works well on i386/x86_64, but it is > in the development stage on other architectures. not too different from diskdump then... > > >> I heard that kexec-dump of > >> some architecture (ex. ia64) had some problems and not worked. > > > >wouldn't it be better to then help finish that rather than making an > >alternative ? > > It is, if diskdump project just started now. But the basic code of > diskdump is almost completed. I think it is more efficient to enhance > quality of diskdump than help kexec-dump. You are obviously free to spend your time wherever you want to, even though I do not agree with your reasoning. |