From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753967AbXD1LFQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:05:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754003AbXD1LFP (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:05:15 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:49337 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753967AbXD1LFN (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:05:13 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: Back to the future. To: Pavel Machek , David Lang , Linus Torvalds , Nigel Cunningham , Pekka Enberg , LKML Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:04:45 +0200 References: <8e5l8-7SD-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <8e6Ka-1uR-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <8e6TS-1Id-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <8efu9-6mF-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <8ekWV-6FF-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <8el6y-6Sj-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <8elpT-7wY-21@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX183vXBxaFwsPryrpWJpVqhxA4PpjtKAyjlyQSn fSFvNouS/N+Ezc4RJic67/vAAJJGzYQP8D0vWP0IQFX0Xvs+VW IqAp1rfEWNNVCsamgcQZQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek wrote: >> I also don't like the idea of storing this in the swap partition for a >> couple of reasons. >> >> 1. on many modern linux systems the swap partition is not large enough. >> >> for example, on my boxes with 16G or ram I only allocate 2G of swap >> space > > WTF? So allocate larger swap partition. You just told me disks are big > enough. 1) Repartitioning is sometimes not an option. 2) What happens, if the swap space gets used? I want to be sure I can suspend my {server,laptop} in case of power running out. Using swap is only an option for desktops. >> 2. it's too easy for other things to stomp on your swap partition. >> >> for example: booting from a live CD that finds and uses swap >> partitions > > That's a feature. If you are booting from live CD, you _want_ to erase > any hibernation image. NACK. You want to keep all partitions related to the hibernated system read-only. That's completely different from destroying all your unsafed data and possibly long-running tasks. -- Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say: 51. YEEEHA!!! What a CRASH!!! Friß, Spammer: C@rzlmn.7eggert.dyndns.org D9GLNDg@Zk.7eggert.dyndns.org