"Otherworld": giving applications a chance to survive OS kernel crashes

  • Authors:
  • Alex Depoutovitch;Michael Stumm

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  • Venue:
  • HotDep'08 Proceedings of the Fourth conference on Hot topics in system dependability
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We propose a mechanism that allows applications to survive operating system kernel crashes and continue functioning with no application data loss after a system reboot. This mechanism introduces no run-time overhead and can be implemented in a commodity operating system, such as Linux. We demonstrate the feasibility of our mechanism on two example applications: JOE text editor and MySQL database server.