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Date:      24 Jan 2005 20:22:27 +0100
From:      Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Resuming from a crashdump
Message-ID:  <86pszu639o.fsf@borg.borderworlds.dk>

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I was thinking about software suspend and got this crazy idea.

I have no idea if this is possible or total madness but here
goes anyway.

The idea would be to force the system to "crash" and make a
dump on a dedicated partition. On boot after initializing devices
but before mounting /, the kernel would check that partition and
if it found a dump there restore it to the machine's memory,
reinitialize devices and continue where it left off.

Any thoughts? Could this be done or would an entirely different
approach be better?

-- 
Christian Laursen



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