On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:57:47AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, 30 October 2006 09:37, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:20:50AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Unfortunately in its current form s2disk causes the access time of the > > > resume > > > device special file to be updated after the suspend image has been > > > created, > > > which is potentially dangerous. > > > > > > We can fix this by mounting a tmpfs, creating the special device file on > > > it > > > and using this file for the suspend, which is done in the appended patch. > > > > But the access time of the device on the tmpfs will also be corrupt, and the > > kernel may go "boom" when unmounting that tmpfs (just theoretical, but maybe > > the cure is worse than the disease)? > > No. tmpfs is in RAM. ;-)
Well, but if some data structures are different than the tmpfs driver thinks they are, the kernel could oops/panic at umount, couldn't it? And today, /dev/ is on tmpfs also :-) I'm not saying that there _will_ be problems, but there _might_ be. -- Stefan Seyfried QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Suspend-devel mailing list Suspend-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/suspend-devel
