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Subject: [RFC][PATCH] track files for checkpointability
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
       "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
       Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>,
       Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, hch@infradead.org,
       Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:34:12 -0800
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This takes a suggestion of Ingo's along with comments from lots of
other people.  It can track whether a given file is able to be
checkpointed.  It has sane default assumptions for new filesystems
and introduces a f_op to allow easy overriding of behavior just
like the reset of the VFS.

You can also find these patches in git:

http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/daveh/linux-2.6-cr.git;a=shortlog;h=dave-v13.1