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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andy Pfiffer <andyp@osdl.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>,
	Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>,
	James P Ketrenos <james.p.ketrenos@intel.com>
Subject: checkpoint/restart [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] fastboot mailing list at OSDL: fastboot@lists.osdl.org]
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 18:18:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020526161852.GA269@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1022102395.19870.78.camel@andyp>

Hi!

> OSDL has created a mailing list for discussion of various topics
> relating to "fastboot": reducing enterprise system start & restart time.
> 
> Topics of discussion are expected to include:
> 
> 	- kexec
> 	- Two Kernel Monty
> 	- bootimg
> 	- and other similar technology
> 
> Other areas for discussion may include:
> 
> 	- avoiding reprobe of devices,
> 	- fast system initialization after the kernel boots,
> 	- system-wide checkpoint/restart.

Systemwide checkpoint/restart... seems like suspend-to-disk to me...:

suspend-to-disk, but on the end, do not powerdown, but copy
swap/filesytems to spare disks, simulate suspend failure and
continue. On restart, copy back anddo restart. Perhaps with some LVM
magic this can be made acceptable?

									Pavel
-- 
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly.  However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-26 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-22 21:19 [ANNOUNCE] fastboot mailing list at OSDL: fastboot@lists.osdl.org Andy Pfiffer
2002-05-26 16:18 ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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