power_management.can_suspend_to_disk

Stefan Seyfried seife at suse.de
Mon Nov 6 05:08:56 PST 2006


On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:58:35PM +0200, S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> 06 Kas 2006 Pts 09:53 tarihinde, Stefan Seyfried şunları yazmıştı: 
> > Today, with a recent kernel, you can already suspend/resume to/from a
> > swapfile. Suspend2 also can do this for a long time.
> 
> Hmm currently im using 2.6.19-rc4 and its documentation still has following, 
> im missing something?
> 
> Q: Why can't we suspend to a swap file?
> 
> A: Because accessing swap file needs the filesystem mounted, and
> filesystem might do something wrong (like replaying the journal)
> during mount.

-mm and s2disk should have it. I have not tried it yet.
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Stefan Seyfried
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