fc4 kernel build for diskless slave nodes

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Sep 27 20:21:16 UTC 2005


On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:22:47AM -0700, Tim Prendergast wrote:
 > Because I believe that if they crash, diskdump will still operate properly
 > by dumping their memory contents to a dump file on the nfs mount to the
 > master filesystem.

diskdump doesn't write to files, but to partitions, by directly
writing to the disk controller hardware. (You also have a load of
SCSI drivers etc still compiled in btw).

What you want is netdump.

		Dave




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