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Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:22:26 +0200 From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...onice.net>, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, tuxonice-devel@...ts.tuxonice.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce Am Montag, 25. Mai 2009 14:32:28 schrieb Pavel Machek: > > I'm going to try to. Unfortunately, they'll require what's basically a > > group-up redesign of the basic algorithm, because to get maximum > > reliability, you need to carefully account for the amount of storage > > you're going to need and the amount of memory you have available, and > > 'prepare' the image prior to doing the atomic copy. > > I don't quite get it; why is that needed? > > If there's not enough swap available, swsusp should freeze, realize > there's no swap, unfreeze and continue. I do not see reliability > problem there. The software suspend may be a part of your response to an imminent power failure (UPS near empty). The number of retries available is possibly limited. I'd feel safer if hibernation by default wrote to a dedicated partition, especially as modern practice is to make swap space smaller than RAM. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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