[Crash-utility] Re: Kdump compressed format

* Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2008-08-05 15:21]: > Bernhard Walle wrote: >> is there any documentation how the kdump compressed format (or the >> diskdump format, from what it is derived) looks like? Beside of the >> source code of the tools that support it. ;-) > The kdump compressed format is supported by only the crash utility > and makedumpfile command. gdb does not support it. I think that > there is not any documentation about the kdump compressed format, > then I wrote it. Is it enough ? Thanks a lot! Yes, that gives me the overview I needed. I grabbed your information and generated a manual page from it where I also want to describe the other dump formats (when I have some time left): http://www.suse.de/~bwalle/kdump/ That's basically part of the SUSE kdump configuration, maintained in http://freehg.org/u/bwalle/kdump/. I just used asciidoc because I hate nroff. I hope it's ok for you to distribute that manual page.