Re: [Crash-utility] [RFC] makedumpfile, crash: LZO compression support

----- Original Message ----- > Hello Hatayama-san, > > > How about the patch adding compression/IO time report? > > I intended it only for the presentation of this RFC. > > I think the above patch was posted only for this discussion, > and I won't merge it into the makedumpfile. > > > > I'll post the corresponding patch in crash's side after crash 6.0.2 is > > released, waiting for new configuration editing feature as Dave has explained. > > If the Crash supports LZO compression, I'll merge the feature into > the makedumpfile. I suppose it's a chicken-and-egg situation, but despite the recent addition of the extra-library build feature added to the crash utility, I wasn't planning to accept LZO compression support until it was first supported in makedumpfile. And even with crash support, it would still require a hand-rebuild of the crash utility sources. If this is merged into makedumpfile and crash, will Fujitsu's next step will be to try to make it non-optional? I'm still not convinced it's worth forcing the pre-installation of the additional packages and library by default.