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SubjectRe: shutdown->save memory, startup->load memory
At 10:10 AM 2/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
> Is there such feature around, like saving RAM to
>disk on shutdown and bring it back on startup?
>This feature is available on some commercial unises.

You can do it with a quick shell script in init. On shutdown have it tar
up the ramdisk, and save the tarball someplace safe, and on bootup just
untar the data back to the ramdisk. Nothing to add to the kernel I don't
think.

-Barrett




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