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Subject: Re: svn commit: r210561 - projects/sv/sys/net
From: Ed Maste <emaste () freebsd ! org>
Date: 2010-07-29 21:06:22
Message-ID: 20100729210622.GA84094 () sandvine ! com
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:10:31PM +0000, Attilio Rao wrote:
> Log:
> Initial import of the netdump files.
> They still need a lot of polishing and cleanup so they might not be
> considered definitive at all.
This code is a port to recent FreeBSD of Darrell Anderson's network
crashdump support, which was done in the 4.x days. I can't find a
current website with the original versions but archive.org has a cache
of course:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041204223729/http://www.cs.duke.edu/~anderson/freebsd/netdump/
Quoting from the old readme:
Netdump provides FreeBSD kernel crash dumping over the network.
Netdump is a FreeBSD kernel module client and user-level server.
A normal kernel crash writes a raw dump of memory to a dedicated
partition (usually the swap partition) using a low-level disk routine,
and then copies that raw dump into a file (via savecore) during the
following boot process.
Netdump replaces the standard dump routine. During a crash, a netdump
client broadcasts to locate a netdump server, then sends the dump as
UDP/IP packets (with retransmission after loss). The netdump server
creates a dump file suitable for gdb. If netdump fails (for example,
no netdump server is located), a normal disk dump is performed.
There is cleanup work to be done still, but we plan to have this in
shape for 9.0.
-Ed
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