[Lustre-discuss] Lustre Mount Crashing

[Charles Taylor]

We appreciate all the suggestions and help.   Just for the record,  
we've used netdump successfully for a long time up through CentOS/RH  
4.5.   However, it seems that support for it, in favor of kdump (as  
far as we can tell) has been deprecated in RH/CentOS 5 and above.      
If we are wrong about that let us know since we had more success with  
netdump than we are having with kdump.

Thanks,

Charlie Taylor
UF HPC Center


On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:

>>
>> [1] http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/netdump/
>> and http://docs.freevps.com/doku.php?id=how-to:netdump
>
> Yes, LLNL has been using netdump to good effect.  It works with the
> "normal" crashdump utilities like "crash" (modified gdb).  It isn't
> in all kernels, however.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
>