Hi!

quoted text
> nobody is suggesting that you leave peocesses running 
> while you do the snapshot, what is being proposed is
> 
> 1. pause userspace (prevent scheduling)
> 2. make snapshot image of memory
> 3. make mounted filesystems read-only (possibly with 
> snapshot/checkpoint)
> 4. unpause
> 5. save image (with full userspace available, including 
> network)

Including network? Your tcp peers will be really confused, then, if
you ACK packets then claim you did not get them. No, you do not want
to start network.

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