[PATCH 2/5][lxc] lxc_restart: Add --image option

Daniel Lezcano dlezcano at fr.ibm.com
Wed Mar 24 13:53:54 PDT 2010


Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Daniel Lezcano [dlezcano at fr.ibm.com] wrote:
>> Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
>>> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:59:39 -0800
>>> Subject: [PATCH 2/5][lxc] lxc_restart: Add --image option
>>>
>>> The existing --directory option to lxc_restart expects the checkpoint state
>>> to be a directory. USERCR however uses a single regular file to store the
>>> checkpoint image. So add a --image option to enable checkpointing and
>>> restarting applications using USERCR.
>>>
>>> Depending on how the application was checkpointed, users should specify
>>> either --image=CHECKPOINT-IMAGE or the --directory=STATEFILE option (but not
>>> both).
>> It's a detail but I would prefer to replace --image by --statefile. So  
>> we can put --directory deprecated and use --statefile as a more generic  
>> name.
> 
> Ok will fix.

Thanks.


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