Re: State of linux checkpointing?

Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-04-29T09:42:20Z

Neal Becker wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Several months ago some guys from Ukrain were announcing special
patch for kernel which allows you to save task to file, and then later
to load it from this file.
Saving task to disk say every 5 seconds - is some sort of
checkpointing, so later you will be able to go back in time :-)
You might want to check l-k archives - I cannot recall correctly the
name of this stuff.