[BIG RFC] Filesystem-based checkpoint

Oren Laadan orenl at cs.columbia.edu
Thu Oct 30 09:25:36 PDT 2008



Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 15:56 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>> If you like I can take a shot at whipping up the new mini-fs, though
>> I think you're having fun :)
> 
> There are a couple of concepts that just get easier once you start
> thinking of this as an entire fs too.  For instance, cr_ctx just becomes
> crfs_sb.  For things like dumping in parallel, we get locking and
> lifetime rules for free from the vfs.

Well, 'cr_ctx' is per-checkpoint, while crfs_sb will single for the
entire system. So you'll need to add something per checkpoint anyway.

What other concepts get easier ?

Oren.



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