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README: Update information according to the recent improvements

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Also added some missing information like the "not_sent_logs"
folder.

Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
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#
# 3. The logs are stored in a ZIP file at "/home/.steamos/offload/var/kdump/";
# if this ZIP file was successfully submitted to Valve servers, this file is
# then moved into the sub-folder "sent_logs/". This file is named as:
# "steamos-SERIAL-STEAM_USER.timestamp.zip", where SERIAL is the machine
# serial (from dmidecode), STEAM_USER is the Steam account name (based on the
# last logged Steam user) and timestamp tz is UTC.
# then moved into the sub-folder "sent_logs/"; if not, it's moved to the
# folder "not_sent_logs/".
# This file is named as: "steamos-SERIAL-STEAM_USER.timestamp.zip", where
# SERIAL is the machine serial (from dmidecode), STEAM_USER is the Steam
# account name (based on the last logged Steam user) and timestamp tz is UTC.
#
# 4. (IMPORTANT) Please, test the infrastructure in order to see if a dummy
# crash log is collected before using it to try debugging complex issues.
@ -56,7 +57,7 @@
# usable, in order to effectively reserve crashkernel memory.
#
# 6. Error and succeeding messages are sent to systemd journal, so running
# 'journalctl | grep kdump' would hopefully bring some information. Also,
# 'journalctl -b | grep kdump' would hopefully bring some information. Also,
# the ZIP file collected is automatically submitted to Valve servers (unless
# the feature is disabled by the user); see below under DETAILS/LOG SUBMISSION
# for API details, decisions made, how to disable the feature, etc.
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# unfortunately after installing the kdump-steamos package *all* initramfs
# images are recreated - this is not necessary, we're thinking how to prevent
# that, but for now be prepared: the installation take some (long) minutes only
# due to that...
# because of that...
#
# (d) Unfortunately makedumpfile from Arch Linux is not available on official
# repos, only in AUR. But it is available on Holo, so we make use of that.
# Also, a discussion was started to get it included on official repos:
# https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2022-January/036767.html
# https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/makedumpfile/#comment-843853
#
# (e) NVMe multipathing introduced a "randomness" level to device naming on
# (d) NVMe multipathing introduced a "randomness" level to device naming on
# Linux, so "nvme0n1" could be "nvme1n1" in some boots, if we have more than
# one NVMe device. There's a kernel parameter to avoid that
# ("nvme_core.multipath=0"). So, since we rely in getting the NVMe device name
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# with "reboot -f", and relying in sysrq reboot as a quirk managed to be a safe
# option, so this is something to think about. Should be easy to implement.
#
# * Maybe a good idea would be to allow creating the minimum image for any
# specified kernel, not only for the running one (which is what we do now).
# Low-priority idea, easy to implement.
#
#
# LOG SUBMISSION
# ###########################################################################