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Robert Strandh 5 years ago
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\chapter{Checkpointing}
\label{chap-checkpointing}
The checkpointing mechanism described in this chapter is inspired by
In this chapter, we describe two alternative checkpointing
techniques. The first one is inspired by the work on the EROS
operating system. The second one is based on work on log-structured
file systems.
\section{Technique inspired by EROS}
The checkpointing mechanism described in this section is inspired by
that of the EROS system.
The address of an object can be considered as consisting of two parts:
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\section{Technique based on log-structured file systems}
To make the description more concrete, we imagine a secondary storage
device consisting of around $2^{30}$ pages, each containing $2^{12}$
bytes. Recall that \sysname{} treats primary memory as a cache for
secondary memory. Therefore, the pages on the secondary storage
device can be considered as making up the complete address space of
\sysname{}. As such, they have unique numbers, starting at $0$.
However, with the technique described in this section, the unique page
number does not correspond to any fixed location on the secondary
storage device. Instead, the location of a particular page can vary
over time.

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