On Tuesday 20 June 2006 9:22 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Let's cut right to the chase: > - I think "image save" is snapshotting > - I think snapshotting is well-defined (and possibly useful) without any > suspend activity what-so-ever. > - I think that anybody who confuses and mixes the two is (a) missing the > real potential of snapshotting, but even more importantly (b) making it > much more complex by having the wrong mental model. Preaching to the choir here. Snapshotting gets interest on the low end as a way to accelerate system startup, and on the high end as a way to enable checkpoint+failover as a high-availability tool. (Don't restart that month-long simulation run the day before completion; just restore the last checkpoint before the backhoe powered down that part of the city.) So a snapshot mechanism that decouples from swsusp would be a Good Thing. - Dave > Mental models are supremely important. Often you can say that they don't > actually matter, because the end result should be the same, but the fact > is, they have a huge impact on _how_ people think, and on how you get to > the end result.
