Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:06:56 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Patrick's Test9 suspend code. |
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Hi!
> > A) Any scheme we come up with there will be a way the user can do something > > stupid enough to break it. (Put the swap partition on a ramdisk living on > > the video card, or on a device require an initrd to load the driver to > > access...) > > > > 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. > > Really, what i think here is appropriate is a more fundamental approach. > > We should reserve a new partition type in addition to three already > existing, namely "linux"==0x83, "linux swap"==0x82 and "linux lvm"==0x8e. > > And call it something like "linux suspend". > And initialize it, if needed (i presume to write a signature etc), with > something like "mksusp".
Yes and we should create separate partition type for root filesystem and have separate mkfs.ext2.root.
NOT!
I see no advantages in mksusp; it only means you need to re-fdisk your machine. Bad idea, and its way too late for 2.6 anyway. -- Pavel Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need...
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