fastboot mailing list at OSDL: [email protected]
OSDL has created a mailing list for discussion of various topics relating to "fastboot": reducing enterprise system start & restart time.
Topics of discussion are expected to include:
- kexec
- Two Kernel Monty
- bootimg
- and other similar technology
Other areas for discussion may include:
- avoiding reprobe of devices,
- fast system initialization after the kernel boots,
- system-wide checkpoint/restart.
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Andy
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checkpoint/restart [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] fastboot mailing list at OSDL: [email protected]]
Hi!
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OSDL has created a mailing list for discussion of various topics relating to "fastboot": reducing enterprise system start & restart time.
Topics of discussion are expected to include:
- kexec
- Two Kernel Monty
- bootimg
- and other similar technology
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Other areas for discussion may include:
- avoiding reprobe of devices,
- fast system initialization after the kernel boots,
- system-wide checkpoint/restart.
Systemwide checkpoint/restart... seems like suspend-to-disk to me...:
suspend-to-disk, but on the end, do not powerdown, but copy swap/filesytems to spare disks, simulate suspend failure and continue. On restart, copy back anddo restart. Perhaps with some LVM magic this can be made acceptable?
Pavel
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