Re: Separate ACPI_SLEEP and SOFTWARE_SUSPEND options

From: John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 08:34:28 EST


> Right now you may boot without resuming and then later resume but
> in meantime you cannot use those swap partitions/files which were
> involved in suspending. Also in this case there is a risk that buffers
> on disk won't match with saved ones.

What happens on a machine which is sharing swap space between two
operating systems? Do we have a way to mark a swap partition which is
used for suspend data as unusable? Maybe we could change the
partition type from 82 to something else.

John.
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