Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce | Date | Mon, 25 May 2009 15:22:26 +0200 |
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Am Montag, 25. Mai 2009 14:32:28 schrieb Pavel Machek: > > I'm going to try to. Unfortunately, they'll require what's basically a > > group-up redesign of the basic algorithm, because to get maximum > > reliability, you need to carefully account for the amount of storage > > you're going to need and the amount of memory you have available, and > > 'prepare' the image prior to doing the atomic copy. > > I don't quite get it; why is that needed? > > If there's not enough swap available, swsusp should freeze, realize > there's no swap, unfreeze and continue. I do not see reliability > problem there.
The software suspend may be a part of your response to an imminent power failure (UPS near empty). The number of retries available is possibly limited. I'd feel safer if hibernation by default wrote to a dedicated partition, especially as modern practice is to make swap space smaller than RAM.
Regards Oliver
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