On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 3:44:17 AM MST Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 09:05:27PM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > On Monday, February 10, 2020 12:03:25 PM MST Robbie Harwood wrote: > > > > > "John M. Harris Jr" <joh...@splentity.com> writes: > > > > > > > On Saturday, January 25, 2020 2:52:05 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > > > > >> Question and (pre)proposal: > > > >> > > > >> Can Fedora converge on a single swap-on-ZRAM implementation, and if > > > >> so, which one? Fedora Workstation WG wants to move to swap-on-ZRAM > > > >> by > > > >> default in Fedora 33, and the working group needs to pick something > > > >> soon. > > > > > > > > > > > > Using swap on zram disables the ability to hibernate, making it a > > > > non-starter for many users. If this is going to be thrown into > > > > anything, the user needs to be asked whether they want it or not in > > > > the installer, otherwise you're just taking away features. > > > > > > > > > I thought you told me that the workstation group considers hibernation > > > unsupported? (id:2368390.zu9c8gp...@marvin.jharris.pw) > > > > > > Thanks, > > > --Robbie > > > > > > They do, but that doesn't negate the fact that it is actually supported > > (you can hibernate your system), and using swap on zram outright breaks > > hibernation (for obvious reasons). > > > This discussion is mixing up two different interpretations of meaning > of "supported". > > - Supported, as in, "this use case is in scope & is a release criteria" > > vs > > - Supported, as in, "the functionality works from a technical POV" > > Thus since hibernation is declared an unsupported use case, the fact that > it might happen to work from a technical POV is merely good fortune and is > not required to stay that way, even if some people might be using that now. > > IOW, if swap-on-ZRAM benefits core supported use cases, then it can be > acceptable to break unsupported use cases even if the latter currently > work at a technical POV. Enabling this kind of trade off to be made is > precisely why it is beneficial to define the scope of a product for > what is supported vs unsupported.
In this case, I mean supported as in: Users in at least KDE can open their respective menu and choose Leave -> Hibernate Users can run `hibernate` ..and it just works. I'd imagine this is also the case in GNOME, though I don't use it actively to verify on real hardware, and that it works in qemu doesn't mean it works on metal. If it doesn't work on real hardware, that's a GNOME-specific issue. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
