Re: [Swsusp-devel] Re: [PATCH] Allow initrd_load() before software_resume() (version 2)

Måns Rullgård
2003-08-06T13:19:30Z

Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:

>> > > Okay. I hadn't tried it yet. I'll happily take up the barrow for you and
>> > > push it to Pavel and Linus with the rest, if you like.
>> >
>> > Don't even think about that.
>> >
>> > It is not safe to run userspace *before* doing resume. You don't want
>> > to see problems this would bring in. Forget it.
>> >
>> so how do you resume from a partition on a device mapper volume?
>>
>> (and yes I basically agree with your sentiment though)
>
> I know very little about DM, its very well possible that resume from
> it is not supported.

Since DM requires some userspace program to set up the mappings, it
seems to me that it wouldn't work to resume from a DM volume. I'd
much appreciate if it would work, somehow.

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