suspend-to-disk

[Bernardo Innocenti]

Jordan Crouse wrote:

> I agree - the suspend to disk code in Linux is already quite mature and
> ready for use - it only saves the pages it needs to.  The question here
> isn't so much how to implement STD, since the concepts are pretty well
> understood - but rather, can we implement it on a NAND device without
> wasting too much precious storage space while avoiding lifetime issues
> on the flash, and do it anywhere fast enough to make it worthwhile
> during regular use?  These are questions I know not the answer to.

Suspend2 advertises that it can even suspend to regular files, however
it doesn't really understand filesystems.  It just stores the block
list somewhere, in the same fashion of lilo.  So I don't think it will
ever work with a compressed filesystem like jffs2.

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