Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:36:36 -0400 | From | "Shem Multinymous" <> | Subject | Re: Laptop shock detection and harddisk protection |
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de> wrote: >>> 2. Make shock protection interact nicely with suspend operations: >>> currently, we are out of luck if anything should happen after >>> processes have been frozen. This is particularly unfortunatel in the >>> case of s2disk. >> >> I'd say that s2disk is similar to early boot... no protection there. > > Well, this is true for resume. However, I can't help thinking that we > may do better than that until the disk spins down, particularly while > writing the image to disk.
Agreed. Practically, disk protection during suspend-to-disk sounds very useful, given the typical usage scenario: you press button to hibernate and start shuffling around your chair/desk in preparation for leaving the room. Dropping the laptop is more likely than ever at this point. Resume-from-disk tends to be done after settling down into your chair/desk, so the drop risk is lower.
Shem
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