Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 09 dec 21, 09:46:26, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > In a more perfect world, the space for suspension would not > > otherwise be treated as swap space. > > It still has to be reserved from somewhere, and swap appears to be the > logical choice for that.
No, it was a convenient choice. A better choice would have been a way to mark a swap partition or file as for use only by the hibernation system, or, as actually once existed, a system that would mount a specific swap partition during the hibernation shutdown procedure, and unmount it after recovery. -dsr-