From: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: Suspend to disk: do we HAVE to use swap?
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:40:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061031174006.GA31555@dreamland.darkstar.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610311348.59069.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> ha scritto:
> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 06:16, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> [snip]
>> However, we already have code that allows us to use swap files for the
>> suspend and turning a regular file into a swap file is as easy as running
>> 'mkswap' and 'swapon' on it.
>
> How is this feature enabled? I don't see it in 2.6.19-rc4.
Swap files have been supported for ages. suspend-to-swapfile is very
new, you need a -mm kernel and userspace suspend from CVS:
http://suspend.sf.net
Luca
--
"Sei l'unica donna della mia vita".
(Adamo)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-31 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-31 3:42 John Richard Moser
2006-10-31 6:16 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-31 6:31 ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-31 6:39 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-31 13:48 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-10-31 17:40 ` Luca Tettamanti [this message]
2006-10-31 19:05 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-10-31 19:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-31 19:41 ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-31 20:04 ` Luca Tettamanti
2006-10-31 20:15 ` John Richard Moser
2006-10-31 21:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-31 20:15 ` Luca Tettamanti
2006-10-31 21:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-31 22:51 ` Luca Tettamanti
2006-10-31 22:31 ` Michael Lothian
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