On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:10:06AM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Is all the converting of uuids to device nodes done in userspace? I
> haven't noticed anything in the kernel to handle uuids, but I don't look
> at filesystem code much.
Yes, this is all done by udev.
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Matthew Garrett | [EMAI
Hi again.
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 11:51 +, Matt Sealey wrote:
> Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> >
> >> But this engineer should also know if he depends on the UUID of the swap
> >> partition to find it. If he does not, he can simply do a "mkswap" to reset
> >> the signature.
> >
> > Since you menti
Nigel Cunningham wrote:
>
>> But this engineer should also know if he depends on the UUID of the swap
>> partition to find it. If he does not, he can simply do a "mkswap" to reset
>> the signature.
>
> Since you mentioned it, what's they point to using these ugly, looong
> uuids? /dev/hda2 is so
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:28:08PM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Since you mentioned it, what's they point to using these ugly, looong
> uuids? /dev/hda2 is so much simpler and easier to read for mere humans.
Try updating a system using, say, the piix driver for the harddisk to the
new libata
Hi.
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 09:10 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 03:41:52PM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 08:39 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > > So if somebody submits a patch that implements a "reset_signature"
> > > program,
> >
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 03:41:52PM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 08:39 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > So if somebody submits a patch that implements a "reset_signature" program,
> > i'll include that in the suspend package.
>
> I don't know if you care (you mig
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:42:00PM -0500, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:00 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> > Ugh, no it's not. You really want the UUID on the swap area to remain
> > the same.
>
> Why?
tyrosine% grep swap /etc/fstab
UUID=12f199be-99bd-44eb-b0c6-0a1ee9da89b8 none swa
Hi.
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 08:39 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> So if somebody submits a patch that implements a "reset_signature" program,
> i'll include that in the suspend package.
I don't know if you care (you might not want to support Suspend2), but
for Suspend2 enabled kernels, you can just
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 05:17:47PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:00:43PM -0500, I wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:37 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> >
> > > So it is a good idea to tell the engineer to do "mkswap" on the swap
> > > partition before putting the disk int
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:00:43PM -0500, I wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:37 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
>
> > So it is a good idea to tell the engineer to do "mkswap" on the swap
> > partition before putting the disk into the replacement hardware.
>
> Ugh, no it's not. You really want the
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:00 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> Ugh, no it's not. You really want the UUID on the swap area to remain
> the same.
Why?
[not questioning your reasoning, this is coming from someone who knows
very little about swap structure and what the UUID is used for]
Daniel
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:00:43PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:37 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
>
> > So it is a good idea to tell the engineer to do "mkswap" on the swap
> > partition before putting the disk into the replacement hardware.
>
> Ugh, no it's not. You reall
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:37 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> So it is a good idea to tell the engineer to do "mkswap" on the swap
> partition before putting the disk into the replacement hardware.
Ugh, no it's not. You really want the UUID on the swap area to remain
the same.
--
Peter
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:06:03PM +0100, Emilio Scalise wrote:
> In suspend2 (now I will get flamed...) there is a nice feature that
> warns that you are trying to resume with a wrong kernel, that lets you
> reboot the machine without losing anything
I won't flame you. It just does not help
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:37 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> He just has to look at the end of the first page of the swap partition
> for the signature :-)
>
> So it is a good idea to tell the engineer to do "mkswap" on the swap
> partition before putting the disk into the replacement hardware.
Th
2006/11/28, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:43:51AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Daniel Drake wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have some questions about this text in Documentation/power/swsusp.txt:
> > >
> > > * If you touch anything on disk
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:43:51AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Daniel Drake wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have some questions about this text in Documentation/power/swsusp.txt:
> >
> > * If you touch anything on disk between suspend and resume...
> > *
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some questions about this text in Documentation/power/swsusp.txt:
>
> * If you touch anything on disk between suspend and resume...
> *...kiss your data goodbye.
>
> It's obvious that this is a bad idea but
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