Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:06:04 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Shaheed <srhaque@iee.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patrick's Test9 suspend code.
Message-ID: <20031121000604.GA580@elf.ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> > B) A heuristic that looks at the mounted block devices for things that smell 
> > like a resume partition would actually be more robust in that case.
> 
> How about a static signature followed by a timestamp? That way, maybe we could 
> have a resume menu like this:
> 
> /dev/hda3  (kernel 2.7.88, suspended on 01-04-2004 20:00:00)
> /dev/hda4  (kernel 2.8.99, suspended on 31-05-2005 20:00:00) ***
> Resume in 5..4..3..2..1..
> 
> with a 5 second countdown before it chooses the most recent? Or in Pavel's 
> examples:
> 
> Erk! Nowhere to resume from! 

If you select hda3 at this point, bye bye your data.

									Pavel
PS: And I mean it. This is not just your average "few more files in
lost+found" kind of corruption.
-- 
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
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