From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757290AbXGHS3e (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2007 14:29:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754479AbXGHS31 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2007 14:29:27 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:59752 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753098AbXGHS30 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2007 14:29:26 -0400 Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:28:24 +0100 From: Al Viro To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Miklos Szeredi , pavel@ucw.cz, oliver@neukum.org, paulus@samba.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: malicious filesystems (was Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway) Message-ID: <20070708182824.GI21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <200707050858.03638.oliver@neukum.org> <20070708123748.GB3866@ucw.cz> <200707082008.57879.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200707082008.57879.rjw@sisk.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 08:08:56PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Well, the system that cannot access its filesystems is not in a consistent > state, so it generally is not reasonable to suspend or hibernate it. > > In fact, NFS and similar filesystems should always be unmounted before the > suspend/hibernation to avoid problems that may arise after the resume, if > they become unavailable at that time. Ah, thanks for clarifying that. [mentally putting the entire thing into "unusable due to idiotic design imposing idiotic limitations" bin and stepping out of this thread]