Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 10 dec 21, 07:21:37, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Jo, 09 dec 21, 09:46:26, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > > > > In a more perfect world, the space for suspension would not > > > > otherwise be treated as swap space. > > > > > > It still has to be reserved from somewhere, and swap appears to be the > > > logical choice for that. > > > > No, it was a convenient choice. A better choice would have been > > a way to mark a swap partition or file as for use only by the > > hibernation system, or, as actually once existed, a system that > > would mount a specific swap partition during the hibernation > > shutdown procedure, and unmount it after recovery. > > In my opinion that would be a waste of space.
It is a reasonable opinion, but I disagree. On modern laptops, there is usually a lot of disk space (500GB - 1TB), so 8-64GB reserved for a special use is not a terrible price compared to other things we do. I wouldn't make it mandatory, just easy. Many laptops never need to go to disk-stored suspension; a low-power sleep mode is all they need to get through to the next power point. For the cases where it is necessary, it should be as reliable as possible. -dsr-
