Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-04-24T15:10:27Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
>>>If you really want to "solve" it reliably, you can always
>>>
>>>swapon /dev/hdfoo666
>>>
>>
>>Seems that using a swapfile instead of a swapdev would fix that neatly.
>>
>>But iirc, suspend doesn't work with swapfiles. Is that correct? If so,
>>what has to be done to get it working?
>
>
> Swapfile does not work, because even readonly mount wants to replay
> logs, and that'd be disk corruption.
>
> It could be doable with modifications to the filesystems, but it would
> be hard (and I do not think it is worth it).
> Pavel
>
Any non-journaling filesystem should work out fine. And if you don't
trust ext2, you can still use xiafs once I've finished porting it to 2.5

Carl-Daniel
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