Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:20:53 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Separate ACPI_SLEEP and SOFTWARE_SUSPEND options |
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> > > Right now you may boot without resuming and then later resume but > > > in meantime you cannot use those swap partitions/files which were > > > involved in suspending. Also in this case there is a risk that buffers > > > on disk won't match with saved ones. > > > > What happens on a machine which is sharing swap space between two > > operating systems? Do we have a way to mark a swap partition which is > > used for suspend data as unusable? Maybe we could change the > > partition type from 82 to something else. > > swsusp changes swap's signature, so swapon will fail.
Aren't there some OSes that just blindly use the whole partition, without looking for a swap signature? I suppose that's really a problem that needs to be fixed with the other OS, though, to recognise the swsusp signature and disable swapping during that boot.
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