Re: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler?

[Phillip Susi]

Olivier Galibert wrote:
> I do expect to be able to move non-mounted disks around while
> suspended to disk, whatever their kind is (ide, sata, scsi, whatever).
> That's one of the main reasons you want a reliable suspend-to-disk on
> servers, another one being riding predicted powerloss (moving boxes
> around can be called a powerloss).

You also expect to have mounted disks survive the suspend.  Think about 
the root filesystem.  You can't unmount that and it would be really bad 
if that went offline ( kernel panic anyone? ) after a suspend.  And yes, 
the root fs can be on a USB drive. 


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