suspend-to-disk

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 01:06 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> The existing linux suspend-to-disk does this: pages that are
> disk-backed are not duplicated, and dirty pages are written out rather
> than saved dirty.  There is a time penalty for doing this.  Suspend2
> has support for page compression as well (http://www.tuxonice.net/)
> and seems to be fairly mature and under active development, although
> I've only used the stock kernel STD myself. 

I know it's a minor detail, but in userspace there's a convention of
calling suspend-to-disk "hibernation" and suspend-to-ram "suspend" -
most people now are using the new names. 

Please see
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnome-power-manager/docs/sleep-names.html and http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/SleepNames

I would really like the OLPC userspace to stick to this nomenclature,
even if it's just in the UI.

Thanks!

Richard.