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-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
Development HA
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