linux-kernel - Re: is there any Hard-disk shock-protection for 2.6.18 and above?

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Message-ID: <41840b750611300951o2a2c7be6uc1e91b504c8ef7b8@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:51:38 +0200
From:	"Shem Multinymous" <multinymous@...il.com>
To:	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	"Elias Oltmanns" <eo@...ensachen.de>,
	"Jens Axboe" <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	"Christoph Schmid" <chris@...lagmichtod.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is there any Hard-disk shock-protection for 2.6.18 and above?

On 11/30/06, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> Should we have kernel doing auto-unfreeze? Perhaps we can just mlock()
> the daemon?

You could be in the middle of suspend with by-now-frozen userspace; or
maybe the daemon had a SEGV or was accidentally killed. Can't trust
that.

  Shem
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