Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:28:32 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: SOFTWARE_SUSPEND as a module |
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Hi!
> > >As a side-effect it also allows you to resume from devices that couldn't > > >be done before due to the need for user-space setup. Examples are LVM > > >and NBD. > > > > LVM can be compiled in, can't it? Does it need to do some setup from an > > initrd? > > It needs to be recognised by the lvm userspace utilities before it can > be used. > > One other thing this might be very useful for is _swsusp from encrypted > swap'. With dm-crypt, it should be very easy to create a crypto mapping > from initrd from which swsusp can resume. IMHO this is a killer feature > for notebook users (everything encrypted but the boot partition).
Okay. Best way is probably to introduce reboot() variant that says "resume from this". Pavel
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