Re: State of linux checkpointing?

Neal Becker
2004-04-29T01:25:01Z

Tim Connors wrote:

> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> said on Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:23:00 -0400:
>> Neal D. Becker wrote:
>> > I wonder if there is a checkpointing that will work with 2.6 kernels?
>> >
>> > I only need relatively basic checkpointing. No sockets or fancy stuff.
>>
>> You only need checkpointing when your application programmers are lazy
>> and don't care about data integrity. :)
>
> Or you are running some kind of cluster where you want the
> applications to be checkpointed transparently without the application
> knowing the details of how or when they will be swapped out (but this
> will need sockets anyway, so won't happen anytime soon).
>

I want checkpointing for:

1) Protect against job interruption due to system crash, operator error,
power loss, whatever

2) Job mygration. Even manual job mygration would be nice.