[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd 215

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 04:41:59PM +0200, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog wrote:
> >         * systemd-coredump may now optionally store coredumps directly
> >           on disk (in /var/lib/systemd/coredump, possibly compressed),
> >           instead of storing them unconditionally in the journal. This
> >           mode is the new default. A new configuration file
> >           /etc/systemd/coredump.conf has been added to configure this
> >           and other parameters of systemd-coredump.
> 
> Are there any thoughts about natively sending coredumps over network?
> I guess it is possible now by mounting /var/lib/systemd/coredump to a
> network drive but dumps occuring before network is up need to be
> transferred too.
Storing the coredumps in the journal and forwarding the logs to a different
host, once that's available, might work. If that's too much overhead, than
I think the option with mounting /var/lib/systemd/coredump over the network
is the only option.

> Capacity of an embedded product might not be enough to store multiple dumps.

Zbyszek