From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Hansen Subject: Re: List of filesystems to use generic checkpoint fops Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:19:28 -0700 Message-ID: <1238167168.8286.514.camel@nimitz> References: <20090327040534.GB27803@us.ibm.com> <49CCE933.5050004@cs.columbia.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49CCE933.5050004-eQaUEPhvms7ENvBUuze7eA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Oren Laadan Cc: Containers List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org 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