Re: Swsusp, resume and kernel versions

Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-17T17:30:58Z

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:28:47 -0500, John M Flinchbaugh <john@hjsoft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:07:31PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > When all the vendor's kernels have swsusp, it will magically kill the
> > signature. Or stick mkswap /dev/XXX in your init scripts.
>
> This is what I've done in some instances. There should be no harm in
> sticking that mkswap into your init scripts right before the swapon -a,
> and then you have a nice userspace solution.
>
> It's safe to reinitialize swap on any clean boot. A resume will not get
> into the init scripts.
>
> Just remember you're doing the mkswap if you decide to rearrange your
> partitions at all, or code a script smart enough to grep your swap
> partitions out of your fstab.

It could be a workaround. Still it will cause loss of unsaved work if
I happen to load wrong kernel. Given that the code checking for swsusp
image can be marked __init I don't understand the reasons gainst doing
it.

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Dmitry