Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:37:31 -0500 | From | Phillip Susi <> | Subject | Re: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler? |
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Olivier Galibert wrote: > > I do expect to be able to move non-mounted disks around while > suspended to disk, whatever their kind is (ide, sata, scsi, whatever). > That's one of the main reasons you want a reliable suspend-to-disk on > servers, another one being riding predicted powerloss (moving boxes > around can be called a powerloss).
You also expect to have mounted disks survive the suspend. Think about the root filesystem. You can't unmount that and it would be really bad if that went offline ( kernel panic anyone? ) after a suspend. And yes, the root fs can be on a USB drive.
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