Re: Back to the future.

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Apr 27 2007 - 10:55:35 EST


On Fri 2007-04-27 08:41:56, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 4/27/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >Now, it would be _very_ nice to be able to snapshot system and
> >continue running, but I just don't see how to do it without extensive
> >filesystem support.
>
> So what kind of support do we need from the filesystem?

"forcedremount ro, not telling anyone, not killing processes" would do
the trick. FS snapshots might do.
Pavel
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