linux-kernel - Re: Back to the future.

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Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:58:25 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	David Lang <david.lang@...italinsight.com>
Cc:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Back to the future.

Am Samstag, 28. April 2007 01:50 schrieb David Lang:
> 3. make mounted filesystems read-only (possibly with snapshot/checkpoint)
> 4. unpause
> 5. save image (with full userspace available, including network)
> 6. shutdown system (throw away all userspace memory, no need to do graceful
>     shutdown or nice kill signals, revert filesystem to snapshot/checkpoint if
>     needed)

And then you'll have people wonder why the server which sent out all
those files has no log entries. You'd have to selectively unfreeze user
space, which is a cure worse than the desease.

Simply throwing away user space work is a bug. And no, you cannot say that
it'll be redone away, as you are throwing away accepted input, too.

	Regards
		Oliver
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