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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:05:48 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: Software Suspend Functionality in 2.5
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Hi!

> Since we've had to work on a solution that can be used 
> for accurate non-disruptive dumps as well as crash dumps
> (the latter using kexec), I was wondering whether it 
> was worth exploring possibilities of commonality with 
> swsusp down the line ... I know its not probably not 
> something very immediate, but just an indication on 
> whether we should keep applicability for swsusp (probably 
> reuse and share ideas/code back and forth between the 
> two efforts) in mind as we move forward. Because we 
> have to support a more restrictive situation when it 
> comes to dumping, it just may be usable by swsusp too 
> if we can get it right.

Well, less code duplication is always welcome. But notice we need
*atomic* snapshots in swsusp, else we might corrupt data.
-- 
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