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From: Swapnil Nagle <swapsn@rediffmail.com>
Subject: Re: Persistent module data
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:40:43 +0530
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> My question is about data preservation from inside a FS... I want to
> preserve the contents of my queue in case of a crash. When mount is
> called I want to scan this list and rebuild the queues in memory. Is it
> possible to write data out to a persistent file from within the system?

One way is to write the data out to a character device and have a 
userspace program poll for it.

Regards,
Swapnil.