[ale] Kernel panic

[James P. Kinney III]

Oops or Panic. They both are shorthand for "You are about to have a bad
day".

Ranks right up there with 

"This is a message from mdmon. A disk in the array has failed. The array
is running in degraded mode.".

Followed 2 minutes later by
"This is a message from mdmon. A disk in the array has failed. The array
has halted."

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 09:52 -0700, Joe Knapka wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> >Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>That's not a kernel panic - kernel panics, as a rule, say "kernel panic!"
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >That's interesting, I've never heard that.  Although, I didn't think you 
> >got an Oops if it wasn't a kernel panic.
> >
> >  
> >
> A kernel panic invariably printks the words "Kernel panic:" on the 
> console.  The difference
> between a "panic" and an "oops" is that a panic is a situation that is 
> forseen, but which we
> cannot deal with, such as not being able to free any RAM, or not being 
> able to mount
> the root filesystem. Both of those are situations that kernel developers 
> can forsee and
> reasonably plan for, even if the plan is just to say, "screw this, I 
> give up". OTOH an
> "oops" is something really horrid that should never happen if the 
> universe is in good
> health, like kernel data structures being corrupt.  In general an oops 
> is more cause for
> concern than a panic, I'd say.
> 
> -- JK
> 
> 
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