From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
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 19:05:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610311905.33667.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061031174006.GA31555@dreamland.darkstar.lan>
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 17:40, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> 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
I know, I use swap files, and not a partition. This has prevented me from
using suspend to disk "for ages". ;-)
Is userspace suspend REQUIRED for this feature?
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-31 19:05 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
2006-10-31 19:05 ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
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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