On Saturday, 14 July 2007 02:45, Joseph Fannin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:30:50AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Friday, 13 July 2007 07:42, Joseph Fannin wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:06:43PM -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > > > Plus we need to figure out how to avoid corrupting filesystems and > > > > > swap in use by the "old" kernel and its processes (hint: a separate > > > > > "hibernation partition" is a no-go). > > > > > > > > I thought the existing hibernation wrote to the swap partition as it's > > > > dedicated space? > > > > > > > > I didn't know that anyone was suggesting writing the hibernation image to > > > > a filesystem that the kernel was activly accessing. > > > > > > I'm suggesting a dedicated, preallocated hibernation *file*, right > > > now. There's no way around it, if hibernation is to be reliable -- > > > otherwise hibernation can fail if the system has used enough of its > > > swap space, so that there isn't enough room to write the hibernate > > > image. > > > > > > Even if it's desirable to allow hibernation to fail if the system is > > > too deep into swap, it's a moot point. > > > > If you're afraid of that, use a dedicated swap file. > > I don't understand what you mean. A dedicated swap file for what? Sorry, I should have been more precise. For hibernation (ie. a swap file that you activate right befor the hibernation). Also tuxonice (formerly known as suspend2) allows you to use regular files hibernation. Greetings, Rafael -- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
