[cap-talk] Styles of persistence

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 01:48 -0700, Jed Donnelley wrote:
> But just like any process (program?) on the system can't it be
> restarted by some other controller?

No, because the durable capabilities all point to the old one.

>   Restarted with different
> code that, as Jonathan noted, reads in it's old format data
> and writes out new format data.

There is a boot-strapping problem here, since you (a) you cannot convert
without allocating storage, and (b) you cannot allocate storage until
you convert...

shap