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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:44:15AM +0900, Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao wrote:
> 
> The mkdump team has been using runtime relocatable kernels for two years
> and we are currently working on porting this functionality to kdump. I
> was wondering if it would be accepted mainstream.

What's the overhead?  (In code size, complexity, performance, etc.?)

						- Ted
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