[Crash-utility] Whether crash support extracting file previously stored in the tmpfs?

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Mon Mar 5 15:07:04 UTC 2012



----- Original Message -----
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Could the crash current support extract the file which was stored in
> the tmpfs when the panic happen?
> Since we know the tmpfs is purely all in memory, it think it is
> ideally that crash could do such job.

Although some/all of a tmpfs file could be swap-backed, correct?
Anyway, whatever's there in memory could presumably be extracted,
but somebody's got to write a function to do it.  It sounds more 
suited as an extension module.

Dave

> 
> Thanks,
> Lei




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