linux-kernel - Re: Problems with suspend and USB storage

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Date:	Thu, 15 May 2008 14:03:21 -0400
From:	Bill Nottingham <notting@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems with suspend and USB storage

Tino Keitel (tino.keitel@....de) said: 
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:33:15 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Is there any way to get sane behavior out of suspend/resume with
> > USB storage?
> 
> I use this since 2.6.18, with my /home, one swap partition and some
> other partitions on a USB hard disk. However, I use LVM, what might be
> a good idea as the device names doesn't matter in this case (just a
> guess). I never had any such failure with suspend to disk and to RAM as
> described above.

Throwing device-mapper in the middle (for crypto) doesn't actually help
the situation.

In any case, even if device names aren't stable across boot, they sort
of need to be across suspend and resume for active filesystems...

Bill
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