On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 20:00 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > Are you suggesting that conversion of a checkpoint image from an older > > version to a newer version be done in the kernel ? > > For mainline kernel it's completely unrealistic to support all backwards > compatibility code for previous versions. Some mythical userspace > program will convert images. > > But it's completely realistic and much easier for distro kernel because > distro kernel doesn't generally include patches with significant in-kernel > internals changes, so they simply can support > '2.6.26-1-amd64' => '2.6.26-2-amd64' situation. > > Distros can write conversion program too, but I don't expect they will. Yeah, I'm with you on this. If distros ever start to care about c/r *that* much, they'll start making this part of their testing process. Personally, I think just giving a kernel version is pretty worthless these days. People do tons of stuff to the kernel without bumping it at all. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
