Re: Freeze the FUSE on Wubi

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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:54:10 -0700 (PDT)
Nick Davies <nickavies@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
>    I am trying to debug the suspend/hibernate on Wubi(The Ubuntu
> installer for Windows) these day. Since Ubuntu sits on top of NTFS
> partition with the help of ntfs-3g via FUSE, I think it should not
> pass the file system freezing stage, but in fact, the suspend works
> well on my machine. So  I am curious that how can they achieve that?
> Just keep the FUSE alive to the end of the suspend? Any ideas are
> welcome.

(Disclaimer: all below is AFAIK and it might be slightly wrong)
On swapon(), a block map of the file / partition is made by the kernel
and later I/O to the swap area are not going through the filesystem
layer. So FUSE is not involved in the suspend process at the stage of
image writing.

Have fun,

	Stefan
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

"Any ideas, John?"
"Well, surrounding them's out."
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