[Ksummit-2008-discuss] Suggested Topic: Checkpoint/Restart design

James Bottomley James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com
Fri Aug 1 13:55:35 PDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 12:19 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> It may be getting late to propose agenda items, but this one could
> be very short.  At the checkpoint/restart part of the containers
> mini-summit at OLS, it was generally agreed that a mostly kernel-
> orchestrated checkpoint and restart, using new system calls
> sys_checkpoint() and sys_restart(), would be the best design and
> most likely to be accepted upstream.  This is different from
> what we've been saying the last few years, as we had thought we
> would do as much in userspace as possible.
> 
> An example of a first patchset is at
> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2008-July/012046.html
> 
> Such patches will hopefully hit lkml pretty soon so ksummit
> discussion may not be necessary, but it would be easier to
> accurately gauge the community reaction from a roomful of faces
> than from one or two lkml posts which may or may not accurately
> represent the general community.

How does this relate to the many efforts that went before it (not just
on linux, but on a lot of the old unixes plus the posix1003.1m standard
that never materialised)?

James




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