Re: [linux-pm] Corrupted files after suspend to disk

From: richard -rw- weinberger
Date: Thu Feb 16 2012 - 18:08:15 EST


On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
>> > FWIW, we've been seeing a number of hard to diagnose failures
>> > with suspend to disk for the last few releases in Fedora.
>> > Eric Sandeen has been chasing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744275
>> > for a while, but there's no smoking gun that really explains what's
>> > getting into these states. Further complicating things, is that it
>> > doesn't seem to be 100% reproducable.
>>
>> I wonder if that's reproducible with the filesystems freezing patch I posted
>> some time ago (it will need some rebasing to apply to the current mainline or
>> 3.2.y).

Where can I find this patch?
I'll happily test it.
But it may take some time as the bug is not easy to reproduce.

>> I also thing that this problem discovered by Alan Stern may be involved:
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&m=132940331030253&w=4
>
> Probably not, unless the filesystems in question are on a USB drive.

The filesystems are no on a USB device.

--
Thanks,
//richard
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