Re: [Crash-utility] Whether crash support extracting file previously stored in the tmpfs?

-----Original Message----- From: crash-utility-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:crash-utility-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dave Anderson Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 11:07 PM To: Discussion list for crash utility usage, maintenance and development Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] Whether crash support extracting file previously stored in the tmpfs? ----- Original Message ----- > Hi Dave, > > Could the crash current support extract the file which was stored in > the tmpfs when the panic happen? > Since we know the tmpfs is purely all in memory, it think it is > ideally that crash could do such job. Although some/all of a tmpfs file could be swap-backed, correct? Anyway, whatever's there in memory could presumably be extracted, but somebody's got to write a function to do it. It sounds more suited as an extension module.

Dave