On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 13:51:16 +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
On 05/12/14 at 06:05pm, Martin Milata wrote:
> Hi,
> I have released system-config-kdump-2.0.15-1 for rawhide and F20
> (currently in updates-testing). The new release allows you to select a
> path even if no FS is explicitly chosen.
>
> Any testing is appreciated.
Hi Martin,
Thanks for this update.
I tested s-c-k-2.0.15-1 on f20, when no target specified, "path" can be
edited now.
The diagram is like below with your update:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Path: /var/crash
Local file system: Partition: Root file system
core will be in /var/crash/%DATE on rootfs
-----------------------------------------------------------------
There are some comments:
1) the text for Partition should be "Unspecified" in this case, since it
can present that user didn't specify a target, "Root file system" is a
little confusing, misguide user to think that core is dumped into rootfs
device.
Good point! I'll change it.
2) The string "core will be in /var/crash/%DATE on rootfs"
may be not
accurate for this case. If disk is mounted on /var or /var/crash, the
core will be not in rootfs, just in a absolute path which begins from "/".
So 2 different ideas are raised, one is to explain this "Path", namely
"/var/crash" is a absolute path, the other is to tell user the mount
info.
E.g:
The text of 1st would be like:
core will be in /var/crash/%DATE which is an absolute path
The text of 2nd would be like below (assume /dev/sdc mounted on /var)
core will be in /crash/%DATE on ext4 /dev/sdc
or (if no disk mounted on /var or /var/crash)
core will be in /var/crash/%DATE on rootfs
I personally prefer the 1st, the 2nd could be more detailed. Let's
review and discuss it.
The second option sounds better to me as well. I'll look into it and
provide a new build.
These new texts won't be true for old kexec-tools versions that do not
have the auto-mounting feature. I propose to solve this by requiring a
new enough version of kexec-tools for system-config-kdump. What is the
N-V-R of the first version with this feature?
Thank you for testing and suggestions,
Martin