Re: The stability crisis

Florian Weimer (fw@s.netic.de)
02 Jul 1999 21:46:56 +0200


Chris Zwilling <chris@cloudnet.com> writes:

> Novell dumps to floppy. It's kind of funny to watch an admin put in 180
> disks for the 256MB RAM Novell server dump... Then you send the disks to
> novell for "expert analysis". The recommendation - reboot the server...
> ;)

OS/2 does it, too. But I've never needed it. ;)

> A zip drive would be nice for this - I could hook up an external scsi
> version, slip in a disk and let 'er oops. Once the problem is solved then
> I could remove the zip drive and turn off the dump.

Dumping to any SCSI device is risky if you've got SCSI disks in the
system. And, of course, 100 MB aren't enough for everyone today.

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