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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja-JP; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Whole device (i.e. a disk device that is not partitioned) cannot be registered as a diskdump-dedicated device. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-24 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Edit /etc/sysconfig/diskdump to register whole device (e.g. /dev/sda or /dev/sdb) as a dump device. 2. Run "service diskdump restart" 3. Run "service diskdump status" Actual Results: A message "diskdump not enabled" is shown. diskdump service is not ready to dump memory. Expected Results: A message "diskdump enabled" is shown. diskdump service is ready to dump memory. Additional info:
*** Bug 175192 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is not a regression but just a bug. So I change the summary. A whole device cannot be configured for diksdump on the earliest kernel-2.6.9-x. However, there is a workaround for this problem. A partitioned disk device can be used as well as a whole device. diskdump's users only partition a disk device with fdisk and the like even if they need to use a whole device as a dump device. Regards, Akira
I plan to include this fix in the next release because this problem has an impact upon other little, and also requires a lot of testing. However, I need to update the README file that is included in diskdumputils so that users can know that a whole device cannot be configured for diskdump on RHEL4. Regards, Akira
This issue is on Red Hat Engineering's list of planned work items for the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4 release. Engineering resources have been assigned and barring unforeseen circumstances, Red Hat intends to include this item in the 4.4 release.
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