[cap-talk] Secure Restart or Trusted Recovery?

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 04/01/2007, at 19.52, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

>On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 01:11 +0100, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
>> On 04/01/2007, at 9.34, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>> 
>> >On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 10:54 +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
>> >> Is what you describe as secure restart essentially trusted recovery?
>> >> Is there any reason for the term rotation?
>> >
>> >I believe the two terms mean the same thing. Some of the KeyKOS
>> >terminology came out of the IBM world, which never shared a lexicon
with
>> >the rest of the world. Not sure if this is an example or not.
>> 
>> Are we talking about "whole system+application restart" or only "kernel
>> restart" ?
>
>Definitely whole system. Whether applications are recovered or restarted
>depends on the system, of course...

Of course :)
In my understanding "recovery" comes after kernel restart, but this may
not be the case after a disk crash.
I think the term "recovery" is too much general, there are a variety of
ways for doing a recovery. The term "restart" is more appropriate in this
case.


val