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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 22:48:16 +0100
From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Re:  [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)
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On 2000-11-10T19:12:29,
   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> said:

> Great!  Are you thinking about putting the crash dumper and the raw
> write disk routines in a separate text section, so they can be located
> in pages which are write-protected from accidental modification in case
> some kernel code goes wild?  (Who me?  Paranoid?  :-)

I would also suggest to have a little checksum over the relevant pages, to
verify that the code is still correct and we are not going to crashdump all
over our valuable data...

And I am still very fond of the idea of crash dumping to a network server ;-)

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Br?e <lmb@suse.de>
    Development HA

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