[Patch v4 3/6] pass mount info to dracut when default target is a separate disk
Vivek Goyal
vgoyal at redhat.com
Mon Mar 31 21:21:23 UTC 2014
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 06:04:40PM +0200, Martin Milata wrote:
[..]
> > > With regards to s-c-kdump, would it be sufficient to enable setting the
> > > "Path" textbox even when no partition is chosen in the "Partition" drop
> > > down menu?
> >
> > I think so. After this change, one should be able to change path even if
> > target is not specified. Some kind of error checking would be good though
> > to make sure path specified by user does exist.
>
> Nice, thanks for the explanation. I'm wondering whether s-c-kdump needs
> to know if the current kexec-tools support this feature. If we simply
> allow the path to be supplied regardless of kexec-tools version, the
> worst that can happen is that kdump.conf is generated which causes (an
> old version of) kdump to save the dump on root fs in the specified
> directory. Is that acceptable?
This sounds reasonable.
Thanks
Vivek
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