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Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] memory checkpoint with swapfiles [message #18917 is a reply to message #18914] Thu, 14 June 2007 16:27 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Dave Hansen is currently offline  Dave Hansen
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On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 11:16 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Another thing this will need is a way to create a very quick
> copy-on-write copy of the swapfile after the checkpoint.  Is
> that simple enough to do? 

We could do one of a couple of things.  First, we don't need an entire
copy of it, we just need to stop writing to it.  We could just switch
over really fast to another swapfile.

Or, we could do checkpointing using one of the existing mechanisms for
taking snapshots of filesystems.

-- Dave

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