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To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: What's left over.
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On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:48:30AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On 1 Nov 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 06:34, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > >   From the standpoint of just the driver that's true. However, the remote
> > > machine and all the network bits between them are a string of single
> > > points of failure. Isn't it good that both disk and network can be
> > > supported.
> > 
> > My concerns are solely with things like the correctness of the disk
> > dumper. Its obviously a good way to do a lot more damage if it isnt done
> > carefully. Quite clearly your dump system wants to support multiple dump
> > targets so you can dump to pci battery backed ram, down the parallel
> > port to an analysing box etc
> 
> Quite clearly SCO, Sun, and IBM have been doing this for years without
> offering dozens of options. I don't need it to sing and dance, I just need
> a way to put the dump where I can find it. I'm not going to put another
> box in at the end of a serial or parallel port, I don't have NVram, I do
> have lopts of disk, and so does almost everyone else. I have remote
> systems in wiring closets all over the country (all four time zones). They
> are at the end of open net connections, unreliable and untrusted. I don't
> want to bet that I have a working VPN, or that I can safely send all that
> data without it being read by someone other than me.
> 
> The AIX support has a group just to beat on dumps customers send. What
> more evidence is needed that people can and do use the capability.
> 
> I had hoped that someone would do this for Linux, I never dreamed that

You paid someone for this for AIX. So the solution is obvious for Linux.


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