Re: Corrupted files after suspend to disk

Alan Stern
2012-02-16T22:26:24Z

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > FWIW, we've been seeing a number of hard to diagnose failures
> > with suspend to disk for the last few releases in Fedora.
> > Eric Sandeen has been chasing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744275
> > for a while, but there's no smoking gun that really explains what's
> > getting into these states. Further complicating things, is that it
> > doesn't seem to be 100% reproducable.
>
> I wonder if that's reproducible with the filesystems freezing patch I posted
> some time ago (it will need some rebasing to apply to the current mainline or
> 3.2.y).
>
> I also thing that this problem discovered by Alan Stern may be involved:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&m=132940331030253&w=4

Probably not, unless the filesystems in question are on a USB drive.
Still, if anyone wants to test it, there's a patch here:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&m=132941053601190&w=4

Alan Stern