Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP

From: Nigel Cunningham (ncunningham@clear.net.nz)
Date: Thu Apr 24 2003 - 20:19:17 EST

They are synced, the journal is just not truncated.

Regards,

Nigel

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 13:22, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Shouldn't we be syncing them all before the suspend anyway, to
> minimize corruption in case the user chooses to mount the filesystem
> *without* resuming (think a dual-boot configuration.) This would be
> another application for the "supersync" operation that was discussed
> at OLS 2002 -- a need for an operation which not only flushes all
> blocks to disk but also forces the journal to be replayed and
> truncated.
>
> -hpa 

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