Re: RFC: Self-snapshotting in Linux

From: Alan Jenkins
Date: Thu Apr 17 2008 - 03:48:19 EST


Nigel Cunningham wrote:
Hi.

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 03:27 -0700, Alan Jenkins wrote:
I guess there is the hardware / drivers issue. I would like to claim
I've found hibernation to be reliable but unfortunately that's not
100% true. As you say, that's inherent to snapshotting on
unvirtualised hardware - calling it snapshotting instead of
hibernation wouldn't change anything.

On a particular set of hardware, it should be possible to make it 100%
reliable. If you've found bugs, please report them. We can only fix
issues if we know they exist.
Thanks!

I already replied to Pavels similar comment - I had posted on Bugzilla. I guess it missed the right people because it started off in the wrong category. (The first symptom I reported was my 2.13Ghz cpu running at 1Ghz after a sucessful hibernation cycle). At Rafaels request, I shall be retesting with the latest 2.6.25-rc kernel on Saturday. I look forward to getting it fixed - I know it should be possible because it's a regression.

Alan
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