Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:46:35 +0200 | From | Ookhoi <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7 |
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> > > I was wondering whether the swsusp work might form a useful basis > > > for the eventual ACPI implementation of the to-disk hibernation > > > stuff: > > > > I (and others) have looked at it. It's a pretty cool patch, but it > > really isn't the right way to do things. > > swsusp is most definitely the right way to do things. It works on my > laptop which has non suspend to disk APM, it even works on my MVP3 > board where ACPI bombs totally (BIOS bug). > > It might not be the right thing to do if ACPI suspend is present > though. > > Actually swsusp has one minor problem. Because of implementation bugs > in some of the journalled file systems like ext3 using swsusp with > those file systems can corrupt your disks (they write to disk even > when told to mount read only rather than replaying the log to disk > when the mount goes r/w - which is really antisocial, breaks if you > are trying to recover from a failed disk and wants fixing.)
I tried swsusp on my vaio (also a c1ve :-) and it didn't work because it (said it) couldn't stop [kreiserfsd]. :-( It didn't do any harm also afaics. I have zero experience with apm and acpi, but the thing I liked about swsusp is that it works with a sysrq key combo.
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