Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/11] track files for checkpointability

Dave Hansen
2009-03-06T15:48:54Z

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 08:34 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > > With time the amount of stuff C/R won't support will approach zero,
> > > but the infrastructure for "checkpointable" will stay constant.
> > > If it's too much right now, it will be way too much in future.
> >
> > What have you seen in OpenVZ? Do new things that are not checkpointable
> > pop up very often?
>
> Realistically, do you think the uncheckpointable stuff would catch a
> brand-new unsupported feature? If it has a file interface then I
> suppose it would. Well, might. I wouldn't be surprised if the authors
> would cut and paste enough code to paste the .checkpoint =
> generic_file_checkpoint line :)

Yeah, that's true. Us maintainers would probably need to keep an eye on
that.

-- Dave