On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 12:13:05AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 09:17, Helg Bredow wrote: > > I've been running OpenBSD 5.4 off a USB stick and couldn't get > > suspend/resume to work on either of my laptops. I thought maybe it was a > > driver issue but I've now installed the latest snapshot to the internal > > HDD and suspend/resume seems to be working fine. However, suspend causes a > > detach of the whole ugen to umass stack to detach so any mounted USB > > filesytems end up in an unclean state. This is probably what was causing > > it to fail when booting off USB. > > > > Is there anything that I need to configure in order to prevent this from > > happening? > > I don't think there's anything you can do. That's how the kernel does > things (detach usb, reattach). > > We could: > 1. postpone the device detach until after resume, and then only detach > devices which are actually missing. I'm not sure how much madness this > would involve. > 2. postpone forced filesystem unmount until after resume to see if the > disk comes back. I'm fairly certain this will involve a lot of madness. >
This is not likely going to be fixed in any near timeframe. It's just too much headache. -ml
