linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/1] PM: Adds remount fs ro at suspend

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Message-ID: <20070209222445.GB3949@ucw.cz>
Date:	Fri, 9 Feb 2007 22:24:45 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, akuster@...sta.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] PM: Adds remount fs ro at suspend

On Wed 2007-02-07 09:25:39, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Ok, as far as usage scenario goes, that's fair enough. But as to the
> > solution, I wonder though whether it's making life more complicated than
> > it needs to be. After all, we should also be able to cope okay with
> > having the power suddenly go out. If we can cope with that, cleaning
> > filesystems prior to suspending should be a non-issue.
> 
> We don't cope okay with the power going out, at all.  And as an user case, a
> need for fsck if you do something that is a reasonable use case (unplugging
> devices while suspended) is not okay, either.

It would be nice to umount devices over suspend, but I do not think
solution is as easy as patch that started this thread. For now it is
'dont do that' and fsck is nice reminder that you done something
wrong.

							Pavel

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