From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262574AbUEQTo2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 15:44:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262476AbUEQTnB (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 15:43:01 -0400 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:37248 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262468AbUEQTml (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 15:42:41 -0400 From: Rob Landley To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: uspend to Disk - Kernel 2.6.4 vs. r50p Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:49:24 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040429064115.9A8E814D@damned.travellingkiwi.com> <200405082331.30669.rob@landley.net> <20040509214959.GD13603@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20040509214959.GD13603@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200405111249.24492.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 09 May 2004 16:49, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > If you suspend, mount > > > your filesytems, do some work and then resume, you are probably going > > > to do some pretty nasty corruption. Just don't do that. > > > > > > But this problem is shared by swsusp, swsusp2 *and* pmdisk. > > > > I know. I also know that ext2 (and derivatives) have both "last mounted" > > and "last written to" datestamp fields (other filesystems probably do as > > well, but I don't use 'em) and it would be really nice to check those as > > matching what they were when you suspended, and abort the resume if they > > don't match... > > Well, feel free to code that, that will allow us to kill few > warnings... Or rather tone them down. It is still "dont do that" > situation. I'll add it to my endless to-do pile, but don't hold your breath. > > > > Sigh. I _really_ don't have time for this right now. I wonder if it > > > > would be possible to just send Patrick some money? > > > > > > He's out of time, so money is not likely to help. Sending some money > > > to Nigel might do the trick ;-). > > > > His code isn't the one I've gotten to work yet... :) > > 2.4 version should be rather easy to get going... > Pavel The last time I booted a 2.4 kernel was 2003. Every time Nigel's code is mentioned, 2.4 is also mentioned. I could also downgrade to 2.2 and debug a version written for that, too. It makes about as much sense to me... I'll try again when 2.6.6 comes out, as usual... Rob