Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:23:24 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm 0/6] swsusp: Add support for swap files |
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On Fri 2006-09-22 11:01:53, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 21:20 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The following series of patches makes swsusp support swap files. > > > > For now, it is only possible to suspend to a swap file using the in-kernel > > swsusp and the resume cannot be initiated from an initrd. > > I'm trying to understand 'resume cannot be initiated from an initrd'. > Does that mean if you want to use this functionality, you have to have > everything needed compiled in to the kernel, and it's not compatible > with LVM and so on?
Not in this version of patch; for resume from initrd, ioctl() interface needs to be added (*). Pavel (*) Actually.. of course resume from file from initrd is possible *now*, probably without this patch series, but that would be bmap and doing it by hand from userland. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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