On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:01:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > > > > Let's face it, we're not going to _ever_ checkpoint any kind of general > > > case process. Just TCP makes that fundamentally impossible in the general > > > case, and there are lots and lots of other cases too (just something as > > > totally _trivial_ as all the files in the filesystem that don't get rolled > > > back). > > > > What do you mean here? Unlinked files? > > Or modified files, or anything else. "External state" is a pretty damn > wide net. It's not just TCP sequence numbers and another machine. I think (I think) you're seriously underestimating what's doable with kernel C/R and what's already done. I was told (haven't seen it myself) that Oracle installations and Counter Strike servers were moved between boxes just fine. They were run in specially prepared environment of course, but still. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
