Suspend2 isn't invasive.

Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at canonical.com
Mon Dec 18 13:27:17 GMT 2006


* Nigel Cunningham 

| On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 19:00 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > * Nigel Cunningham 
| > 
| > | On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 08:45 -0600, Travis Watkins wrote:
| > | > On 12/1/06, Hervé Fache <Herve at lucidia.net> wrote:
| > | > > As I said before on this list, one cannot judge suspend2 vs swsusp
| > | > > until they try both, and I did. I started up with a biased stance
| > | > > towards sticking to Linus' tree, but once you've tasted suspend2 it's
| > | > > hard to go back to black screens and no info.
| > | > 
| > | > uswsusp can apparently give you the same thing here.
| > | 
| > | uswsusp promises to give most of the same things, but much of it is
| > | still just promises.
| > 
| > I just coded usplash integration (again) for uswsusp, so the progress
| > bit is covered.  It already has image compression and encrypted
| > images.  It supports suspending to files, it supports aborting a
| > suspend which has started.  It does not support arbitrary plugins, but
| > the code is simple enough that adding any hooks which are missing
| > seems easy enough.
| > 
| > So, I'd say it's on feature-parity with suspend2.
| 
| 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?

Just swapfiles and I don't think it supports multiple swap devices.
(And to be honest, I don't see that as a very common use case either.
Most machines where you want suspend are laptops, and those generally
only hold one drive.)

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