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From: Itsuro O. <od...@va...> - 2006-10-13 03:30:36
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Hi, > Is it possible to have the mini kernel to dump the memory to a regular > filesystem instead of raw partition. No. > My goal is to dump the vmcore as fast as possible while using less disk > space. I think raw disk is the best way. > However about compress? It can be a solution. You can get it to modify a mini-kernel by yourself. :-) Thanks. On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:28:24 -0700 "Tony Chung" <tc...@ap...> wrote: > Hi, > > > > Is it possible to have the mini kernel to dump the memory to a regular > filesystem instead of raw partition. > > This is assume that some memory pages are all zero's and so when write > to a file on the filesystem does not actually occupy any physical block. > > > > My goal is to dump the vmcore as fast as possible while using less disk > space. > > However about compress? > > And or partial dump since free lists are probably meaningless? > > Any comments? > > > > Thanks. > > > > - Tony > > > > > |