Re: subsystem crashes reboot system?

Mitch Adair (mitch@theneteffect.com)
Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:46:41 -0600 (CST)


> > Isn't this what watchdog is for? I think even the software watchdog would
> > catch this, then you can panic and reboot.
>
> hm, I don't think, that watchdog will catch this, because the userspace-watchdog
> daemon will still be running properly in a crash case
> (or did I understand something wrong?)

But it wouldn't be able to write to the filesystem so it would trigger
if I believe.

M
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