Suspend2 isn't invasive.

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Nigel Cunningham 

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| Ok. That's quite a lot of progress since I last checked. When you say
| suspending to files, do you mean to swapfiles or to ordinary files? Does
| it support multiple swap devices now?

Swapfiles.  It doesn't look like it supports multiple devices, but
adding that does look like a SMOP.

| > There's nothing inherent in uswsusp's design which makes it have to
| > try to free lots of memory.  At least, nothing I could immediately
| > see?
| 
| The maximum image size of 1/2 of memory.

This seems to be less of a problem when you enable compression,
doesn't it?  (I don't see where the limitation in the code is, but I
haven't looked deeply at the suspend code; I've just added usplash
support)

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