From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 20 May 2001 15:51:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 20 May 2001 15:51:18 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:21770 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 20 May 2001 15:51:02 -0400 Subject: Re: Getting FS access events To: cw@f00f.org (Chris Wedgwood) Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 20:47:20 +0100 (BST) Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), pavel@suse.cz (Pavel Machek), rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca (Richard Gooch), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Kernel Mailing List) In-Reply-To: <20010520163041.A6260@metastasis.f00f.org> from "Chris Wedgwood" at May 20, 2001 04:30:41 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I'm confused. I've always wondered that before you suspend the state > of a machine to disk, why we just don't throw away unnecessary data > like anything not actively referenced. swsusp does exactly that.