From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Shaheed <srhaque@iee.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patrick's Test9 suspend code.
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:06:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031121000604.GA580@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311201726.48097.srhaque@iee.org>
Hi!
> > 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.
>
> How about a static signature followed by a timestamp? That way, maybe we could
> have a resume menu like this:
>
> /dev/hda3 (kernel 2.7.88, suspended on 01-04-2004 20:00:00)
> /dev/hda4 (kernel 2.8.99, suspended on 31-05-2005 20:00:00) ***
> Resume in 5..4..3..2..1..
>
> with a 5 second countdown before it chooses the most recent? Or in Pavel's
> examples:
>
> Erk! Nowhere to resume from!
If you select hda3 at this point, bye bye your data.
Pavel
PS: And I mean it. This is not just your average "few more files in
lost+found" kind of corruption.
--
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-21 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 17:26 Patrick's Test9 suspend code Shaheed
2003-11-20 19:39 ` Rob Landley
2003-11-20 22:33 ` Shaheed
2003-11-20 22:41 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-11-20 23:02 ` Shaheed
2003-11-21 6:46 ` Rob Landley
2003-11-21 20:09 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-11-21 0:06 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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2003-11-19 13:15 Samium Gromoff
2003-11-19 19:06 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-09 10:04 Rob Landley
2003-11-13 13:08 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-16 0:30 ` Rob Landley
2003-11-16 13:13 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-17 2:38 ` Rob Landley
2003-11-17 8:42 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-17 16:45 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-11-17 21:11 ` Rob Landley
2003-11-18 12:02 ` Rob Landley
2003-11-18 18:22 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-18 22:12 ` Rob Landley
2003-11-18 23:21 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-19 5:26 ` Rob Landley
2003-11-19 9:18 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-19 9:41 ` Rob Landley
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