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Re:Checkpoint and restore Docker containers with CRIU by vezzy-fnord on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @09:59AM (#10258571)
EROS and KeyKOS accomplished the same OS-wide some 25 years ago, though they were also built on a completely different process model. Grasshopper [1] was another system from the same time period built around orthogonal persistence.

Bolting checkpointing on top of a monolithic Unix is harder, though doable. DragonFly BSD has had a rather elegant and simple mechanism called sys_checkpoint(2) since 2003, but is still limited to single-threaded programs.

[1] http://www-systems.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/gh/

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Re:Checkpoint and restore Docker containers with CRIU by 616c on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @04:29PM (#10261486)
> Bolting checkpointing on top of a monolithic Unix is harder

Indeed. In the interview this comes up, as they wanted their patches mainlined into Linux development and Linus, and unusually so given the joking about his outbursts, said they were insane or going for the impossible and passed.

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