Bug 206309

Summary:	release notes: add a few lines about kexec and kdump replacing netdump
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Patrick C. F. Ernzer <pcfe>
Component:	redhat-release	Assignee:	Tim Powers <timp>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	5.0	CC:	ddomingo, jarod, tao
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Description Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2006-09-13 16:04:34 UTC

Just a minor one

can we please add a few words to the effect of kexec and kdump replacing netdump
to the release notes?

Best place would probably be under "Generic Feature Additions"/"kexec and kdump
(2.6.13)"

Suggested text.
netdump has been removed as kexec and kdump can provide (amongst others)
equivalent functionality. Please see ... for details

Comment 1 Eric Hagberg 2006-09-13 18:00:44 UTC

Do kexec/kdump provide equivalent functionality?

I don't think you can successfully use dump to swap. And I don't see any options
for various dump levels that diskdump allowed.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Comment 3 Jarod Wilson 2006-09-18 14:47:53 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 206906 ***