Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:58:17 -0400 | From | Jason Lunz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm 5/6] mm: Print first block offset for swap areas |
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> The entire problem is we can't use file names during resume, because > we can't mount filesystems at that time, so we need to represent the > swap header's location in a filesystem-independent way.
grub reads files without mounting the filesystem. And it has to find the entire file, not just the beginning. Maybe swsusp could use that technique? If not the in-kernel one, surely the userland version could.
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