Hi, I will be on vacation from tomorrow to the next Saturday (inclusive), without any Internet access.
In case you want to try the latest-greatest there is a series of patches at: http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/patches/2.6.18-rc4-mm1/ consisting of: - some 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 fixes (and a hack disabling serial console suspend), - some patches that have been sent for inclusion into -mm recently, - the "handle highmem better" patch that removes the highmem-related limitations of swsusp, - four experimental patches that make it possible to save suspend images to swap files. Everything up to and including swsusp-handle-highmem-better.patch has been tested and should work. The last four patches are totally experimental, but the first three of them have been tested for a couple of times and seem to work (still, for now, please don't put your swapfiles in a filesystem that you'll miss too much if it's gone. ;-) ). I think the approach will need quite a bit of discussion and/or considerations, so I'll post the patches for a review when I'm back. In short, the idea is that a swap file can be identified by the name of the block device which holds it and the offset from the beginning of the device. The offset is printed by sys_swapon() or when you run "cat /proc/swaps" (in the "Start" column) and there's a new kernel command line parameter "resume_offset" allowing you to pass it to the kernel. For example, if 1) you have a swap file /tmp/swap 2) /dev/hda5 is mounted on /tmp 3) there's 110515 in the "Start" column of the output of "cat /proc/swaps" for /tmp/swap, pass "resume=/dev/hda5 resume_offset=110515" to the kernel and that's it. Have fun! Greetings, Rafael -- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. R. Buckminster Fuller ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Suspend-devel mailing list Suspend-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/suspend-devel
