Resume/Suspend (was Re: LVM / Filesystems / High availability)

Shawn Leas (sleas@ixion.honeywell.com)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 19:42:36 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Magnus Redin wrote:
>
> Shawn Leas writes:
> > I think Linux kernel ver 2.3 is going to do just we hope it is going
> > to do. On the list of things that I've seen realistically discussed
> > are:
>
> > 1) Vast improvement in the MM, such as zone alocation, etc.
> > 2) The support for LVM. (I can't tell you how long I've been
> > searching)
> > 3) Super high throughput FS's that are journaled for
> > stability and speed of recovery.
>
> What about a "sleep" function that stores a complete live image on the
> swapspace and then shuts down for a quick reload after power-on. It
> ought to be possible to give all kind of PC:s the same function as a
> laptops builtin poweroff/resume.

Forgive me, and I'm really not trying to diss this, but what would the
practical application be for this? I missed the previous discussions on
this you mention...

-Shawn

> Extremely practical and more so if you already have a system that runs
> for weeks and months withouth craches. Its not like a windows system
> where a reboot is good in itself...
>
> There has been some discussions about it on the kernel list. I hope
> this idea isent forgotten.
>
> Regards,
>
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