linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v10][PATCH 02/13] Checkpoint/restart: initial documentation

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Message-ID: <20081128104554.GP28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:45:54 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v10][PATCH 02/13] Checkpoint/restart: initial
	documentation

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:04:33PM -0500, Oren Laadan wrote:

> +Currently, namespaces are not saved or restored. They will be treated
> +as a class of a shared object. In particular, it is assumed that the
> +task's file system namespace is the "root" for the entire container.
> +It is also assumed that the same file system view is available for the
> +restart task(s). Otherwise, a file system snapshot is required.

That is to say, bindings are not handled at all.

> +* What additional work needs to be done to it?

> +We know this design can work.  We have two commercial products and a
> +horde of academic projects doing it today using this basic design.

May I use that for a t-shirt, please?  With that quote in foreground, and
pus-yellow-greenish "MACH" serving as background.  With the names of products
and projects dripping from it...
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