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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/6] swsusp: Add support for swap files
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:23:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060922052324.GG2357@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1158886913.15894.31.camel@nigel.suspend2.net>

On Fri 2006-09-22 11:01:53, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 21:20 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The following series of patches makes swsusp support swap files.
> > 
> > For now, it is only possible to suspend to a swap file using the in-kernel
> > swsusp and the resume cannot be initiated from an initrd.
> 
> I'm trying to understand 'resume cannot be initiated from an initrd'.
> Does that mean if you want to use this functionality, you have to have
> everything needed compiled in to the kernel, and it's not compatible
> with LVM and so on?

Not in this version of patch; for resume from initrd, ioctl()
interface needs to be added (*).
									Pavel
(*) Actually.. of course resume from file from initrd is possible
*now*, probably without this patch series, but that would be bmap and
doing it by hand from userland.
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-22  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-20 19:20 [PATCH -mm 0/6] swsusp: Add support for swap files Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-20 19:31 ` [PATCH -mm 1/6] swsusp: Use device and offset to intentify swap areas Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-21 21:27   ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-20 19:34 ` [PATCH -mm 2/6] swsusp: Rearrange swap-handling code Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-21 21:28   ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-20 19:41 ` [PATCH -mm 3/6] swsusp: Use block device offsets to identify swap locations Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-21 21:30   ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-21 22:21     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-20 19:46 ` [PATCH -mm 4/6] swsusp: Add resume_offset command line parameter Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-21 21:31   ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-21 22:18     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-22 13:34       ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-20 19:54 ` [PATCH -mm 5/6] mm: Print first block offset for swap areas Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-21 21:32   ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-21 22:10     ` Dave Jones
2006-09-21 22:46       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-21 23:58         ` Jason Lunz
2006-09-22 10:57           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-22 14:13             ` Jason Lunz
2006-09-22 14:18               ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-22 14:35                 ` Jason Lunz
2006-09-22 14:37                   ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-22 14:32               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-22 14:33                 ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-20 20:01 ` [PATCH -mm 6/6] swsusp: Document support for swap files Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-21 21:33   ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-22  1:01 ` [PATCH -mm 0/6] swsusp: Add " Nigel Cunningham
2006-09-22  5:23   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-09-22 11:28     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-22 22:18       ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-09-23 22:18         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-23 22:49           ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-09-23 22:59             ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-23 23:24               ` Nigel Cunningham

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