Re: Back to the future.

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> Why do you think that keeping the user space frozen after 'snapshot' is a bad
> idea?  I think that solves many of the problems you're discussing.

It makes it harder to debug (wouldn't it be *nice* to just ssh in, and do

	gdb -p <snapshotter>

when something goes wrong?) but we also *depend* on user space for various 
things (the same way we depend on kernel threads, and why it has been such 
a total disaster to try to freeze the kernel threads too!). For example, 
if you want to do graphical stuff, just using X would be quite nice, 
wouldn't it?

But I do agree that doing everythign in the kernel is likely to just be a 
hell of a lot simpler for everybody.

		Linus
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