On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:10:11 -0800 (PST), Jack [email protected] wrote:
Sorry, not being clear again. By a sacrificial box, I mean a box that if the kernel or a driver explodes and crashes the box nothing important is lost. Also, since the kernel may crash while testing, hardware that is somewhat resilient to destruction due to system crashes that require cold reboots would be desirable.
1: kernel freeze or driver crash is not going to wipe your file system. having a known-good kernel on a boot floppy or in your lilo configuration is a basic necessity when building your own kernel. Backing up all files and installing microparticle filters is advised when you need to do full CYA.
2: All hardware is resilient to destruction due to system crashes that require cold reboots. Microporcessor engineers did away with the HCF machine code instruction long ago.