Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM / Sleep: Freeze filesystems during system suspend/hibernation

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Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2012 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Freeze all filesystems during system suspend and (kernel-driven)
> hibernation by calling freeze_supers() for all superblocks and thaw
> them during the subsequent resume with the help of thaw_supers().
> 
> This makes filesystems stay in a consistent state in case something
> goes wrong between system suspend (or hibernation) and the subsequent
> resume (e.g. journal replays won't be necessary in those cases).  In
> particular, this should help to solve a long-standing issue that, in
> some cases, during resume from hibernation the boot loader causes the
> journal to be replied for the filesystem containing the kernel image

replied => replayed

> and/or initrd causing it to become inconsistent with the information
> stored in the hibernation image.

Thanks,
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