Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:06:57 -0700 | Subject | Re: "partial" container checkpoint | From | Paul Menage <> |
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:29 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: >> I think the perceived need for it comes, as above, from the pure >> checkpoint-a-whole-container-only view. So long as you will >> checkpoint/restore a whole container, then you'll end up doing >> something requiring privilege anyway. But that is not all of >> the use cases. > > Yeah, there are certainly a lot of shades of gray here. I've been > talking to some HPC guys in the last couple of days. They certainly > have a need for checkpoint/restart, but much less of a need for doing > entire containers.
We'd certainly like the ability to migrate jobs that might be in their own pid namespace, but not in their own network/IPC/user/etc namespaces.
Paul
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