Re: Suspend to disk: do we HAVE to use swap?

[Luca Tettamanti]

Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 06:16, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> [snip]
>> However, we already have code that allows us to use swap files for the
>> suspend and turning a regular file into a swap file is as easy as running
>> 'mkswap' and 'swapon' on it.
> 
> How is this feature enabled? I don't see it in 2.6.19-rc4.

Swap files have been supported for ages. suspend-to-swapfile is very
new, you need a -mm kernel and userspace suspend from CVS:
http://suspend.sf.net

Luca
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