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SubjectRe: holy grail

Hi!

> > Your best bet would be to use a system that already implements some
> > form of checkpointing or process migration, and use this to
> > preserve user space state across kexec reboots. openMosix may be
>
> [snip]
>
> preserving user state would not be so much the problem as would
> the various internal kernel data structures (vm stuff, dcache, etc.)

Actually, you want to kill vm structures, dcache etc. You only want
userspace-visible state to be carried forward to minimize possibility
of bringing bugs to new kernel.
Pavel
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