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.
Dave