On 04/15/2015 11:02 AM, Bastien Nocera
wrote:
I think that conflating "memory-to-disk swap space" with "I can
hibernate my machine"
is unacceptable. We need a new partition type that Anaconda would
setup, or
a whitelist of laptops with firmwares that support rapid start
(and again, Anaconda
to set it up), or use a temporary file of any sort to store the
hibernation data.
If my machine has 8 gigs of memory, I don't want to need 8 gigs
plus of swap to be
able to hibernate it, when run away processes can make my machine
unusable for hours
if they start hitting that swap.
Elsewhere in this thread Zbyszek suggested a RAM-sized swap
partition for hibernation, plus a filesystem-resident swap file that
grows as needed. If such file could be recreated as a sparse /
thin-provisioned object on boot it would be pretty slick.