tomorrows rawhide kernel.

Willem Riede wrrhdev at riede.org
Sun Aug 14 13:44:06 UTC 2005


On 08/14/2005 02:13:59 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.

Can it do that mount ext2, ro, and avoid that effect?

Regards, Willem Riede.





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