linux-kernel - Re: Back to the future.

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Message-ID: <20070427145507.GP22250@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:55:07 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Back to the future.

On Fri 2007-04-27 08:41:56, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 4/27/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> >Now, it would be _very_ nice to be able to snapshot system and
> >continue running, but I just don't see how to do it without extensive
> >filesystem support.
> 
> So what kind of support do we need from the filesystem?

"forcedremount ro, not telling anyone, not killing processes" would do
the trick. FS snapshots might do.
									Pavel
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