[Lustre-discuss] Lustre Mount Crashing

[Jim Garlick]

Right, netdump support was dropped in favor of kdump in RHEL 5.
As a result netdump is past tense for us at LLNL.

Jim

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:35:04PM -0400, Charles Taylor wrote:
> 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.
> >
> 
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