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    SubjectRe: Back to the future.
    On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:

    > Hi!
    >
    >>> This is basically the loop above, made complex by the fact that we do
    >>> not want to have separate partition for snapshot; we just want to
    >>> reuse free space in swap partition.
    >>
    >> with the size of drives today is it really that bad to require a seperate
    >> partition for this?
    >
    > Yes. You want uswsusp to work in situations where swsusp worked.
    >
    >> I also don't like the idea of storing this in the swap partition for a
    >> couple of reasons.
    >>
    >> 1. on many modern linux systems the swap partition is not large enough.
    >>
    >> for example, on my boxes with 16G or ram I only allocate 2G of swap
    >> space
    >
    > WTF? So allocate larger swap partition. You just told me disks are big
    > enough.

    swap partitions are limited to 2G (or at least they were a couple of months ago
    when I last checked). I also don't want to run the risk of having a box try to
    _use_ 16G worth of swap. I'd rather have the box hit OOM first.

    >> 2. it's too easy for other things to stomp on your swap partition.
    >>
    >> for example: booting from a live CD that finds and uses swap
    >> partitions
    >
    > That's a feature. If you are booting from live CD, you _want_ to erase
    > any hibernation image.

    why?

    it's been stated that doing a std and booting another OS (including windows) is
    a valid and common useage. saying that if you boot another OS you trash your
    suspended image doesn't sound reasonable.

    David Lang
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