[CRIU] CRIU @Plumbers

[Christopher Covington]

On 02/03/2015 09:58 AM, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> On 02/02/2015 10:19 PM, Saied Kazemi wrote:
>> Given the wide spectrum of CRIU use cases, I am also in favor of organizing a 
>> separate track for it.
>>
>> To that end, I can present and do a live demo of how CRIU was used to provide
>> native Docker container checkpoint and restore.  This can be a full presentation
>> by itself or combined with another presentation.
> 
> That's great :) I'll start filling the page with data soon then. Feel free to
> join and add the stuff you want.
> 
>> A minor nit: for consistency, can we call it checkpoint/restore instead of checkpoint/restart?
> 
> Google gives ~600k results for "checkpoint/restart" vs ~900k for "checkpoint/restore"
> so I don't mind :)

I prefer "restore" (perhaps a more migration focused term) myself, but I think
there is some history behind "restart" (perhaps a more fault tolerance focused
term) from at least the Berkeley Lab's Checkpoint/Restart project, which has
software releases from 2005 and papers from 2002.

http://crd.lbl.gov/departments/computer-science/CLaSS/research/BLCR/
http://crd.lbl.gov/departments/computer-science/CLaSS/research/BLCR/checkpoint-restart-publications/

Chris

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