linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 5/6] mm: Print first block offset for swap areas

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Date:	Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:35:39 -0400
From:	Jason Lunz <lunz@...ooley.org>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	"Rafael J\. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 5/6] mm: Print first block offset for swap areas

> Well, most people "solve" this by having their boot partition on ext2,
> no?

my grub appears to handle ext2/3, reiser3, xfs, jfs, fat, and minix.

> Anyway, yes, you can do libext2 magic... in uswsusp..

a hybrid approach might work, with grub-like support for common filesystems and
the ability to specify the resume_offset on the kernel command line as a fallback.

Jason
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