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From: "Akiyama, Nobuyuki" <akiyama.nobuyuk@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Preben Traerup <Preben.Trarup@ericsson.com>
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:28:23 +0200
Preben Traerup <Preben.Trarup@ericsson.com> wrote:

> Strictly speaking for myself: Nothing.
> 
> Mr. Akiyama Nobuyuk gave an example from his environment which is cluster systems.
> I was the one saying we in our Telco systems could use this feature too.
> 
> The only thing Mr. Akiyama Nobuyuk and I have in common is we both would like to do
> something before crash dumping, simply because the less mess we will have to cleanup
> afterwards in the system taking over, the better.
> 
> Mr. Akiyama Nobuyuk operates on SCSI devices to avoid filesystem corruptions.
> My usage would be more like notifying external management to get traffic 
> redirected to server systems taking over.
> 

Thanks, Preben.
I appreciate your good interpretation;-)

Thanks,
--
Akiyama, Nobuyuki