Re: compressed elf core dumps

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 06:35:24PM -0400, Mark wrote:
> I have a patch set based of a slightly older kernel which offers compressed(gzip)
> core dumps. These files compress exceptionally well.  This feature can be 
> helpful for embedded linux systems with smaller file systems.  The core 
> dumps can be taken off line, un-compressed and analyzed.  
>
> If there's any interest, I'll update the patch and post it.

Do this by feeding coredump to external process via
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
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