Re: Hibernating To Swap Considered Harmful

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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Joseph Fannin wrote:

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:57:04PM -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Joseph Fannin wrote:

the only justification I have heard for why the hibernate image must be
written to the swap partition is backwards compatibility (i.e., we've
always done it that way)

if you are going to reserve disk space for hibernation, what is so bad
about useing a normal partition?

   You have to either repartition when you upgrade your memory, or
waste a bunch of disk space with a partition as large as you think
your RAM might ever expand to.

memory upgrades are rare and tools are available nowdays to resize linux partitions.

   Swap/hibernate files can be created, deleted, and resized without
partitioning.

if you just use the hibernate file as a reserved set of blocks and never touch them from the main OS things will work, but if you do anything that could put those blocks into the OS write cache all bets are off.

   Also: not all platforms support a large number of partitions.
It's not academic -- Intel Macintoshes are limited to four, with two
taken by Mac OS.  Add Windows and a Linux /, and you're out --
there's no room for a swap file.

interesting, I didn't know that. I know that the Tivo's use Mac style partition tables and they have many partitions (10+). it seems odd that when switching from powerpc to x86 that they would lock themselves down like that. are you sure that they can't have extended partitions like standard PC's? it seems odd that they would have such a special partition table type if windows can access it.

David Lang
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