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Message-Id: <1209061809.12718.36.camel@nimitz.home.sr71.net>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:30:09 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...allels.com>
Cc:	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nadia.Derbey@...l.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	nick@...k-andrew.net, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Checkpoint/restart (was Re: [PATCH 0/4] - v2 -  Object
	creation with a specified id)

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 11:00 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> Yeah... we talked with Andrew yesterday. He mostly agrees with a black
> box.
> He also said an interesting idea, that if you need compatibility
> between the kernels (like we for example, support for migration from
> 2.6.9 to 2.6.18 in OpenVZ)
> you can do image conversion in user-space...

That sounds compelling to me.  I'm definitely willing to explore it.

Any thoughts on what we should start with?  What can we get merged, most
easily?

-- Dave

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