Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:30:50 -0500 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: Swsusp, resume and kernel versions |
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:28:47 -0500, John M Flinchbaugh <john@hjsoft.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:07:31PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > When all the vendor's kernels have swsusp, it will magically kill the > > signature. Or stick mkswap /dev/XXX in your init scripts. > > This is what I've done in some instances. There should be no harm in > sticking that mkswap into your init scripts right before the swapon -a, > and then you have a nice userspace solution. > > It's safe to reinitialize swap on any clean boot. A resume will not get > into the init scripts. > > Just remember you're doing the mkswap if you decide to rearrange your > partitions at all, or code a script smart enough to grep your swap > partitions out of your fstab.
It could be a workaround. Still it will cause loss of unsaved work if I happen to load wrong kernel. Given that the code checking for swsusp image can be marked __init I don't understand the reasons gainst doing it.
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