Otherworld: giving applications a chance to survive OS kernel crashes

In this paper, we present a mechanism that allows applications to survive operating system kernel crashes and continue functioning with no application data loss after a system reboot. The proposed 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: a JOE text editor and a MySQL database server.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: EUROSYS
• Authors: Alex Depoutovitch, Michael Stumm
• Keywords: Application Data Loss, Commodity Operating System, Eurosys 2010, Operating System