[Gllug] disk problems

[Nix]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Russell Howe announced authoritatively:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:05:44PM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Russell Howe murmured woefully:
>> > So you haven't fancied giving kexec a try yet, then? :)
>> 
>> That's still rebooting in my eyes: your state goes poof and things have
>> to be restarted.
> 
> Surely Linux kernel structures are consistent between kernel versions
> and the only updates are new drivers and bugfixes, thereby allowing you
> to transfer state readily from one running kernel to another. I mean
> kernel code is so perfectly designed from a software engineering POV
> that it is surely the epitomy of clean generic interfaces, abstraction
> in all the right places and efficient code, is it not? :)

Abstraction in all the right places would *reduce* the likelihood of
raw-byte-level structure consistency :)

(snark snark snerk snerk)

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