x86 Suspend/resume support in Hoary

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Sun Feb 6 15:00:40 CST 2005


On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 10:20:22PM +0200, Sami Haahtinen wrote:

> Ah, if we are trying to deal with filesystem corruption, simple sync 
> would be enough. Although, i'm not too familiar with the way kernel 
> deals with filesystems, but i would assume sync() before spinning down 
> the disks should be enough.
> 
> And syncing should be a sane thing to do anyway...

I would be surprised if the kernel does not force a sync itself before
suspending; having heard reports of corruption, I'm not sure what causes it.

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 - mdz



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