Otherworld - Giving Applications a Chance to Survive OS Kernel Crashes

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: EUROSYS
• Authors: Alex Depoutovitch, Michael Stumm
• Keywords: Application Data Loss, Commodity Operating System, Computer Science, Eurosys 2010, MySQL Database Server, System Software