Re: Hibernate to LVM

[Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> I am using the 2.6.10 kernel (linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2 with patch 2.6.10.bz2) on
> an older IBM ThinkPad (T20 booted with acpi=force).
> 
> I have seen no discussion of the following in the archives.  Hibernate (S4)
> does not work if the swap partition is on an LVM Logical Volume.  The
> reason is that try_name (init/do_mounts.c) is unable to find the partition
> in /sys/block.

Well, I'd say that this is currently unsupported.

> Further, if a second swap partition is established on a regular partition
> and referenced in the "resume" state in menu.lst, hibernate appears to
> succeed, but on resume check_sig (kernel/power.swsusp.c) complains because
> the swsusp_header signature is "SWAPSPACE2" rather than the hard-coded
> "S1SUSPEND" which it expects.

...but this one should be fixed. suspend should only write to partition
you specified with resume= parameter. If that is not the case, feel free to fix
it and send me a patch.

				Pavel
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