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Subject: Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
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On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 15:08, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Instead of swap, let user specify a partition to raw dump there. If a user
> wants crash dumps, he has to leave some small disk space free and give an
> option like "dump=/dev/hda7".

With what will you write it - not the linux block layer thats for sure.
Ingo has patches for doing network dumps which are kind of neat

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