Re: [PATCH] [5/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 350-workthreads.patch

Nigel Cunningham
2005-07-12T11:48:09Z

Hi.

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 21:25, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > OTOH: this is only critical for "niceness", not for
> > > correctness. Calling sync() before suspend is simply nice thing to do,
> > > but it is not required in any way. If someone is doing long dd, tough,
> > > they are going to loose some data if wakeup fails. It is no worse than
> > > sudden poweroff.
> >
> > How can you say it's only required for niceness one minute, then admit
> > it might result in data loss the next?
>
> It will result in data loss *if resume fails*. But failing resume
> *always* causes data in running programs to be lost, so I do not see
> that as a problem.

It does for you :>

Regards,

Nigel
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