Bug 253714 – reduce size of vmcore when doing cp from init script

Bug 253714 - reduce size of vmcore when doing cp from init script

Summary:	reduce size of vmcore when doing cp from init script

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	kexec-tools (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.1
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Neil Horman
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Reported:	2007-08-21 09:07 EDT by Neil Horman
Modified:	2008-09-25 08:46 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2008-09-25 08:46:18 EDT
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Description Neil Horman 2007-08-21 09:07:13 EDT

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 11:29:25 EDT

fixed in fedora

Comment 2 Neil Horman 2007-08-21 16:23:21 EDT

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 13:33:07 EDT

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!

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