List of filesystems to use generic checkpoint fops

Dave Hansen dave at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Mar 27 08:19:28 PDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 10:56 -0400, Oren Laadan wrote:
> 
> >       ramfs
> 
> I'd think that in the case of ramfs we always need to dump the
> contents of the
> file, or the entire file system, with the checkpoint image.

It's really no different than a disk-based one.  We're requiring
somebody to move all the data around between our checkpoint/restart
operation.  If there's data on ramfs that the container needs, then it
needs to get moved just like anything else.  In the OpenVZ case, they
just rsync it.

-- Dave



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