20 Nov
2009
20 Nov
'09
6:09 p.m.
I need to make a decision on the configuration of the kdump location for a bunch of new machines. It seems like using a raw partition directly is the safest choice, right? If I configure it to dump vmcore on a filesystem, and the filesystem gets corrupted somehow, then the dump will fail. Same for network-based dumps (the remote end may be unavailable due to a number of reasons).
The local storage is a couple SATA drives with hardware-based mirror RAID. The chassis is a Dell PowerEdge.
Also, what it the recommended size for a dedicated raw partition for kdump?
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Florin Andrei
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