tomorrows rawhide kernel.

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sun Aug 14 06:13:59 UTC 2005


On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:12:43AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
 > On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > >  > Why not an swap file or just an regular suspend file?  [2]
 > > 
 > > I never tested swapfiles, but it *should* work.
 > 
 > Are you sure?
 > 
 > I don't understand how the suspend software would be able
 > to resume from a swapfile without first mounting the root
 > filesystem (which upsets the ext3 journal state in the
 > written out memory).

Gack. I clearly never thought that through at all :)
You're absolutely correct.

		Dave




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