Hi. On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 17:15, Jim Crilly wrote: > Nigel Cunningham said the following: > > You warmed my heart until... > > Good to know someone reads my email =) > > > Why not? :> I guess you mean to the problem of slow booting in the first > > place - I would agree with you there, but is there are reason why we > > should have booting being the norm instead of normally suspending and > > resuming, and only rebooting for new kernels/hardware/etc. > > Don't get me wrong, I would go nuts without swsusp2 on my notebook and I > don't > see why that shouldn't be a valid avenue to pursue; even for servers it > doesn't > seem like a terribly bad idea. But for me it only works on 1 out of my 4 > machines. The 3 non-working machines have their root and swap on SCSI devices > and to top it off 2 of them are non-x86 architectures.
Okay. So it's a lack of hardware support then. I need to bug people to get SCSI PM support working, and to lend me non-x86 and x86-64 some more :> > Another issue would be dual-booting, which a lot of people still do for some > strange reason. At least I had noticed that Windows tends to have problems > when > filesystems it had mounted before the hibernation are altered while it's not > running. I'm not sure if similar issues would apply to Linux, hell I'm not > even > sure if it still applies to Windows because that was so long ago that I had > noticed. Suspend certainly doesn't like filesystems being mounted under it - it writes the image without remounting ro or unmounting. I think I saw a patch Tim had that remounted ro, but you still have to be careful as the saved memory contains a picture of the state of superblocks and so on. Regards, Nigel -- Nigel Cunningham Software Engineer, Canberra, Australia http://www.cyclades.com Ph: +61 (2) 6292 8028 Mob: +61 (417) 100 574 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
