Hi!
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> >
> > Sounds doable, as long as you can cope with long command lines (which 
> > shouldn't be a biggie). (If you've got a swapfile or parts of a swap 
> > partition already in use, it can be quite fragmented).
> 
> Hmm.  This is an interesting problem.  Sharing a swap file or a swap
> partition with the actual swap of user space pages does seem to be
> a limitation of this approach.
> 
> Although the fact that it is simple to write to a separate file may
> be a reasonable compensation.

I'm not sure how you'd write it to a separate file. Notice that kjump
kernel may not mount journalling filesystems, not even
read-only. (Ext3 replays journal in that case). You could pass block
numbers from the original kernel...
									Pavel
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