From: Disconnect <dc.disconnect@gmail.com>
To: "Peter Teoh" <htmldeveloper@gmail.com>
Cc: "Alan Jenkins" <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>,
"Scott Lovenberg" <scott.lovenberg@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Self-snapshotting in Linux
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:21:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55f6199c0804160921i55cc0fe7ycf45cb64933b84ad@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <804dabb00804160806o39a2c89eg8d3a3387beb7b5cb@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com> wrote:
> This list is awesome. After I read up on this kexec-based hibernation thing:
>
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/11756
>
> I realized it is about the same idea. Some differences though:
>
> My original starting point was VMWare's snapshot idea. Drawing an
> analogy from there, the idea is to freeze and restore back entire
> kernel + userspace application. For integrity reason, filesystem
> should be included in the frozen image as well.
[snip]
It sounds like what you want is the existing ghost setup plus
swsusp/tuxonice. Hibernate the system, which saves out your userspace
and kernel state, do the ghost save, then when you restore it'll boot
up right where it left off.
http://www.tuxonice.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <ajbvb-3Ur-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <ajcri-65w-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-04-16 10:27 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-04-16 11:12 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-16 13:50 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-04-17 9:32 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-19 16:42 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-04-17 0:55 ` Nigel Cunningham
2008-04-17 7:48 ` Alan Jenkins
[not found] ` <ajd42-7Gt-49@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-04-16 11:02 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-04-16 15:06 ` Peter Teoh
2008-04-16 16:21 ` Disconnect [this message]
2008-04-16 19:50 ` Vivek Goyal
[not found] ` <48065C64.7010808@gmail.com>
2008-04-16 20:10 ` Scott Lovenberg
2008-04-16 20:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-04-17 2:09 ` Scott Lovenberg
2008-04-17 6:23 ` Peter Teoh
2008-04-17 8:43 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-04-17 16:01 ` Scott Lovenberg
2008-04-16 8:44 Peter Teoh
2008-04-16 8:49 ` eric miao
2008-04-16 9:49 ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-16 10:33 ` Scott Lovenberg
2008-04-16 11:14 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <804dabb00804160821n4872c65fh44f2c07ead67fc49@mail.gmail.com>
2008-04-17 9:33 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-16 18:31 ` Greg Freemyer
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