From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267096AbTGTNJ4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:09:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267123AbTGTNJ4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:09:56 -0400 Received: from 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk ([81.2.122.30]:30593 "EHLO 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267096AbTGTNJz (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:09:55 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:34:28 +0100 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200307201334.h6KDYSqC002010@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: Separate ACPI_SLEEP and SOFTWARE_SUSPEND options Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Right now you may boot without resuming and then later resume but > in meantime you cannot use those swap partitions/files which were > involved in suspending. Also in this case there is a risk that buffers > on disk won't match with saved ones. What happens on a machine which is sharing swap space between two operating systems? Do we have a way to mark a swap partition which is used for suspend data as unusable? Maybe we could change the partition type from 82 to something else. John.