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On Friday 01 November 2002 11:18 am, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> To add insult to injury, you will not be able to actually _test_ any of
> the real error paths in real life. Sure, you will be able to test forced
> dumps on _your_ hardware, but while that is fine in the AIX model ("we
> control the hardware, and charge the user five times what it is worth"),
> again that doesn't mean _squat_ in the PC hardware space.

  On the other hand, ISC's system 5 r3 ran on commodity x86 hardware and the 
crash dumper worked on the various disk hardware I had occasion to use it on 
(mfm, scsi, ide), although one did need to make sure swap was larger than ram 
or bad things would happen. 8-{.  
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