Re: Soft-Updates for Linux ?

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:33:54PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> The tricky part of the crash simulator would be recovering the resources
> the filesystem was using and convincing the VFS to let go of the the
> partition.  If you could return the system to a stable state you could
> do many, many more test runs in the same time.  Maybe VMWare could help
> here.

User-Mode-Linux would probably be the better choice. You simply crash the
kernel with a few kills. 

It is also free unlike VMWare.

-Andi
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