Software suspend is scary, and multiple booting

[Trent Lloyd]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:46:39PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:29:08AM +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> > Well, I beleive when there is suspend information in the swap, the swap
> > is invalid and so any other OS booted simply wont mount it, so its not
> > *catastrophic*
> > 
> > I could be wrong, but I'm fairly sure swsusp1 does that (I know suspend2
> > does for sure)
> 
> Ubuntu, at least, notices this, assumes that a resume failed, and clobbers
> it back into a swap partition.

Eww thats ugly

> 
> Otherwise, a failed resume leaves the user permanently lacking swap.
> 
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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.