Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Suspend 2 merge: 49/51: Checksumming | Date | Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:30:33 -0500 |
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On Monday 29 November 2004 07:24 pm, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:55, Rob Landley wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 November 2004 08:02 am, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > A plugin for verifying the consistency of an image. Working with kdb, > > > it can look up the locations of variations. There will always be some > > > variations shown, simply because we're touching memory before we get > > > here and as we check the image. > > > > A while back I suggested checking the last mount time of the mounted > > local filesystems as a quick and dirty sanity check between loading the > > image and unfreezing all the processes. (Since a read-only mount > > shouldn't touch this, triggering swsusp resume from userspace after > > prodding various hardware shouldn't cause a major problem either...) > > Does that sound like a good idea? > > If I recall correctly, someone replied that even a read only mount under > one filesystem (XFS? Not sure), would replay the journal, so it wasn't a > goer.
You could always special case the broken one until they fix it... :)
> > Haven't had time to look into it myself, though. (Just recently got time > > enough to bang on busybox again. Somewhere around 2.6.7, software > > suspend stopped working for me and I haven't even had a chance to track > > _that_ down yet. Hopefully fixed in 2.6.9 or 2.6.10, I haven't played > > with it recently...) > > If you mean suspend2, I might be able to help if given more info.
Nah, the one that's built in. I'll try it again when I upgrade to 2.6.10 in a few days.
> Regards, > > Nigel
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