From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5][lxc] lxc_restart: Add --image option Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:48:51 -0700 Message-ID: <20100324194851.GD20031@us.ibm.com> References: <20100319063912.GA25732@us.ibm.com> <20100319064046.GC25732@us.ibm.com> <4BA78276.2040308@fr.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BA78276.2040308-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@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: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Containers , clg-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Daniel Lezcano [dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org] wrote: > Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: >> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu >> 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.