Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm 5/6] mm: Print first block offset for swap areas | Date | Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:57:11 +0200 |
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On Friday, 22 September 2006 01:58, Jason Lunz wrote: > > 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.
This is filesystem-dependent. AFAICT not all filesystems are supported by GRUB.
Greetings, Rafael
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