Re: Soft-Updates for Linux ?

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 09:47:24 EDT

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    On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:33:54PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
    > The tricky part of the crash simulator would be recovering the resources
    > the filesystem was using and convincing the VFS to let go of the the
    > partition. If you could return the system to a stable state you could
    > do many, many more test runs in the same time. Maybe VMWare could help
    > here.

    User-Mode-Linux would probably be the better choice. You simply crash the
    kernel with a few kills.

    It is also free unlike VMWare.

    -Andi
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