Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:29:38 -0500 (EST) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM / Sleep: Freeze filesystems during system suspend/hibernation |
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On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > particular, this should help to solve a long-standing issue that, in > > some cases, during resume from hibernation the boot loader causes the > > journal to be replied for the filesystem containing the kernel image > > and/or initrd causing it to become inconsistent with the information > > stored in the hibernation image. > > Ungood. Why is bootloader/initrd doing that? If it mounts filesystem > read/write, what is the guarantee that it will not change data on the > filesystem, breaking stuff? > > Bootloaders should just not replay journals. > > > The user-space-driven hibernation (s2disk) is not covered by this > > change, because the freezing of filesystems prevents s2disk from > > accessing device special files it needs to do its job. > > ...so bootloaders need to be fixed, anyway.
I don't know about bootloaders, but from what I've heard, Linux fs drivers (including those inside initrds) always replay the journal, even if the filesystem is mounted read-only. This could be considered a bug in the filesystem code.
Alan Stern
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