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BLCR?

Posted Feb 26, 2009 4:23 UTC (Thu) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
Parent article: Checkpoint/restart tries to head towards the mainline

What about? Berkeley Lab Checkpoint/Restart (aka BLCR)? It's currently implemented as an out-of-tree kernel module, and seems to be in active development. Is there anything useful to be gained there?

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BLCR?

Posted Feb 26, 2009 6:43 UTC (Thu) by ntl (subscriber, #40518) [Link]

From a review of the FAQ, it looks kinda hacky: BLCR uses LD_PRELOAD tricks, and its build process requires access to the kernel's System.map, which implies that it uses unexported symbols.