Re: A kexec approach to hibernation

[H. Peter Anvin]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> No, it only supports ext2 (and reading ext3 as if it's ext2). Right now, 
> the assumption that syncing during suspend will cause data to hit 
> something grub can read isn't a safe one.

I brought this issue up quite a few years ago at an OLS BOF.  We pretty
much need a "supersync" system call; you can do this by bmapping any
file on ext3, but having something supported across filesystems would be
good.

	-hpa
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