On 11/06/2014 10:19 PM, Minfei Huang wrote:
On 11/07/14 at 10:48am, WANG Chao wrote:
On 11/06/14 at 08:21pm, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
Add a latest soft link for local dumps, and a user configurable option for other cases. This makes things easier when going through $path to find the latest kdump.
How about making it as default feature. I mean remove the user configurable option and provide a "latest" softlink always.
I know this sounds too much, but I'd like to hear from others.
Thanks WANG Chao
Like the function of time-machine on OS X.
If you want to backup machine, the lastest soft link always links the lastest backup file. It is so convenience to find the lastest one.
I mentioned this feature to vgoyal the other day. He brought up the valid case that someone may have a large number of systems and is dumping all of them to a single location via nfs or ssh. "latest" then becomes confusing. So he thinks this should only be done on local dumps.
I agree that it simplifies the code to remove the user config, and that user config options tend to be buried and unused.
Perhaps a happy medium is to do (sorry for the cut-and-paste):
+ if [ "$HOST_IP" == "127.0.0.1" ] ; then + echo "kdump: creating link to latest" + rm -f $_mp/$KDUMP_PATH/latest + ln -sf $KDUMP_PATH/$HOST_IP-$DATEDIR $_mp/$KDUMP_PATH/latest + else + echo "kdump: creating link to $HOST_IP-latest" + rm -f $_mp/$KDUMP_PATH/$HOST_IP-latest + ln -sf $KDUMP_PATH/$HOST_IP-$DATEDIR $_mp/$KDUMP_PATH/$HOST_IP-latest + fi
and remove the config option?
P.