Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 20:40:23 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Separate ACPI_SLEEP and SOFTWARE_SUSPEND options
Message-ID: <20030720184023.GC269@elf.ucw.cz>
References: <200307201334.h6KDYSqC002010@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
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Hi!

> >  	  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.

swsusp changes swap's signature, so swapon will fail.
								Pavel
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