Moore's law and why persistence may not be necessary.
Marcus Denker
marcus at ira.uka.de
Fri Jan 25 12:08:50 UTC 2002
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:35:01PM +0100, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Lex,
>
> > EROS could do it, however. EROS is an operating system that
> > automatically pages memory to disk as you run -- very OOZE-like! EROS
> > is very careful in the order it saves things to disk; at any
> > time, there is one complete and consistent snapshot, and one
> > snapshot being built.
>
> Do you have any pointers to how they do this?! The thing I'm mostly
> interested here is how they deal with any kind of "external" resources
> (e.g., network connections etc).
>
No idea how EROS does it, but for the rio project it's described in
the Paper
Lowell, Chen: Discount Checking: Transparent, Low-Overhead Recovery
for General Applications.
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~pmchen/Rio/papers/discountChecking.ps
"
TCP: Much of the state used to implement the TCP protocol is
in the kernel. To acces this state, we omplemented a user-level
TCP library built on UDP. Since our TCP library is part of the
process, Discount Checking saves its state automatically. ....
" (p. 5)
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