Hello.... > I am working on a project where I need to save the current state > of the kernel (data structures like inodes, dentries, etc) into a > file. Will this process be similer to how Linux crash dumps work. Any > information in this regard will be of appretiated. Seems like you need to take a look on LKCD (Linux Kernel Crash Dump, as you already guessed...) or software suspend. Both do same thing actually, that is saving current kernel state so later it can be examined or restored. Do googling for exact URL... NB: Please don't post your message under somebody's else post if you want to start new discussion. It will screw out the mailing list archieving as one might think you are replying to somebody else. regards Mulyadi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/