Bug 253714

Summary:	reduce size of vmcore when doing cp from init script
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Neil Horman <nhorman>
Component:	kexec-tools	Assignee:	Neil Horman <nhorman>
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Description Neil Horman 2007-08-21 13:07:13 UTC

Description of problem:
In fucntion save_core int he initscript for kexec tools we can reduce core dump
image size by producing sparse files with the --sparse=always options

Comment 1 Neil Horman 2007-08-21 15:29:25 UTC

fixed in fedora

Comment 2 Neil Horman 2007-08-21 20:23:21 UTC

This is checked into my private 5.2 branch, and will be merged as soon as 5.1 ships

Comment 3 Neil Horman 2007-08-22 17:33:07 UTC

http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/rpms/kexec-tools-1.101-195.el5.tbz2

The above link is a tarball of test kexec-tools rpms which contain a fix for
this bz.  Please test them and confirm the fix to smooth the checkin process
once the tree opens.  Thanks!