Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007 schrieb Matthew Garrett:
> Suspend to RAM on a machine with / on a fuse filesystem turns out to be 
> a screaming nightmare - either the suspend fails because syslog (for 
> instance) can't be frozen, or the machine deadlocks for some other 
> reason I haven't tracked down. We could "fix" fuse, or alternatively we 
> could do what we do for suspend to RAM on other platforms (PPC and APM) 
> and just not use the freezer.

Only if you want to audit all character devices' read() and write()
methods for races against suspend().
/ on fuse is a bad idea.

	Regards
		Oliver

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