There is something called "EPCKPT - A checkpoint utility for Linux" that
sounds like it could what you want.
http://www.cos.ufrj.br/~edpin/epckpt/
I've never used it and I have no idea what state of usefulness its in, but
I hope you'll find it useful.
The hard part with such projects is what do you do with time-sensitive,
stateful I/O? You could conceivably checkpoint disk writes, but you can't
really checkpoint network connections (unless you checkpoint the other
end(s) of the connection at exactly the same state).
But in the fast-boot case, it may work fine as you'd want to checkpoint
the system right after bootup, before any disk and/or network activity (or
anything else) takes place.
--Jeremy
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Chuck Carlson wrote:
[snip]
> Yes it does help, and also brings up another thought. I recall that
> one could take a snapshot of a wintel pc (memory and regs), write it to
> disk, power down and up, reload the snapshot, and you were up and running
> from where you left off. Is there anything like this in the Linux
> world?
Jeremy Impson
Network Engineer
Advanced Technologies Department
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems
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