Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:34:28 +0100
From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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
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>  	  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.
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