Re: malicious filesystems (was Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway)

[Al Viro]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 08:08:56PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Well, the system that cannot access its filesystems is not in a consistent
> state, so it generally is not reasonable to suspend or hibernate it.
> 
> In fact, NFS and similar filesystems should always be unmounted before the
> suspend/hibernation to avoid problems that may arise after the resume, if
> they become unavailable at that time.

Ah, thanks for clarifying that. [mentally putting the entire thing into
"unusable due to idiotic design imposing idiotic limitations" bin and
stepping out of this thread]
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