Re: Swsusp, resume and kernel versions

Pavel Machek
2005-02-17T11:09:13Z

Hi!

> First of all I must say that swsusp has progressed alot and now works
> very reliably, at least for my configuration, and I use it a lot. Great
> job!
>
> But I think there is one pretty severe issue present - even if swsusp
> is not enabled kernel should check if there is an image in swap and
> erase it. Today I has somewhat unpleasant experience - after suspending
> I accidentially loaded a vendor kernel. I was in hurry and decided that
> resume just failed for some reason so I did couple of things and left
> the box running. In the evening I realized that I am running vendor kernel
> and decided to reboot into my devel. version. What I did not expect is for
> the kernel to find a valid suspend image and restore it. As you might
> imagine messed up my disk somewhat.

When all the vendor's kernels have swsusp, it will magically kill the
signature. Or stick mkswap /dev/XXX in your init scripts.
Pavel
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