Re: swappiness=0 makes software suspend fail.

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >Of course, mounting/fscking any of the filesystems in question would kinda 
> >screw that up too, [...]
> 
> That reminds me of a question I wanted to ask for a long time.
> 
> Why doesn't suspend just remount everything read-only before saving the
> memory image? Would that be impossible in this context? I find it quite
> scary to have my filesystems dirty *and* part of my files saved in the
> memory image.

Try umount / on busy system some day. No, its not possible in this
context.

OTOH swsuspend does sync(), so your filesystems are not in *that*
scary state.

									Pavel

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