Re: Suspend 2 merge: 49/51: Checksumming

Pavel Machek
2004-11-30T13:24:37Z

Hi!

> > A plugin for verifying the consistency of an image. Working with kdb, it
> > can look up the locations of variations. There will always be some
> > variations shown, simply because we're touching memory before we get
> > here and as we check the image.
>
> A while back I suggested checking the last mount time of the mounted local
> filesystems as a quick and dirty sanity check between loading the image and
> unfreezing all the processes. (Since a read-only mount shouldn't touch this,
> triggering swsusp resume from userspace after prodding various hardware
> shouldn't cause a major problem either...) Does that sound like a good idea?

Yes, it would be good sanity check. ext3 replays journals even on
read-only mount so your / will need to be ext2...
Pavel
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