Hi Roberto, in principle, there is nothing that prevents always logging in the debug mode. However, you should be aware that the amount of data being logged is huge. This has following implications: - as the logs are stored in ramdisk during installation, the memory requirements for installation may go up slightly - the amount of data written to the log may hit the installation time, especially in 2nd stage (writing directly to disk) - (probably worst) the log will need to rotate - meaning that at the end of the installation, the logs from the beginning may not be available any more Especially the last one may mean that in the end you don't resolve customer's problem, but even make it worse for us to obtain the right part of the log. HTH, Jiri On 05/02/2013 09:32 PM, Roberto Angelino wrote:
I have a customer who is asking if it's OK to set Y2DEBUG=1 all the time:
When we encounter SLES media problem, one of the first things SuSE engineers ask us to do is reproduce with Y2DEBUG=1 on the kernel commandline. We were thinking about always having this media feature enabled going forward. Can we ask SuSE engineers if there is any cause for concern in doing this?
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