Re: Patrick's Test9 suspend code.

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> > A) Any scheme we come up with there will be a way the user can do something 
> > stupid enough to break it.  (Put the swap partition on a ramdisk living on 
> > the video card, or on a device require an initrd to load the driver to 
> > access...)
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Really, what i think here is appropriate is a more fundamental approach.
> 
> We should reserve a new partition type in addition to three already
> existing, namely "linux"==0x83, "linux swap"==0x82 and "linux lvm"==0x8e.
> 
> And call it something like "linux suspend".
> And initialize it, if needed (i presume to write a signature etc), with
> something like "mksusp".

Yes and we should create separate partition type for root filesystem
and have separate mkfs.ext2.root.

NOT!

I see no advantages in mksusp; it only means you need to re-fdisk
your machine. Bad idea, and its way too late for 2.6 anyway.
-- 
				Pavel
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