Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:06:04 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Patrick's Test9 suspend code. |
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Hi!
> > B) A heuristic that looks at the mounted block devices for things that smell > > like a resume partition would actually be more robust in that case. > > How about a static signature followed by a timestamp? That way, maybe we could > have a resume menu like this: > > /dev/hda3 (kernel 2.7.88, suspended on 01-04-2004 20:00:00) > /dev/hda4 (kernel 2.8.99, suspended on 31-05-2005 20:00:00) *** > Resume in 5..4..3..2..1.. > > with a 5 second countdown before it chooses the most recent? Or in Pavel's > examples: > > Erk! Nowhere to resume from!
If you select hda3 at this point, bye bye your data.
Pavel PS: And I mean it. This is not just your average "few more files in lost+found" kind of corruption. -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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