Hi. On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 21:25, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > OTOH: this is only critical for "niceness", not for > > > correctness. Calling sync() before suspend is simply nice thing to do, > > > but it is not required in any way. If someone is doing long dd, tough, > > > they are going to loose some data if wakeup fails. It is no worse than > > > sudden poweroff. > > > > How can you say it's only required for niceness one minute, then admit > > it might result in data loss the next? > > It will result in data loss *if resume fails*. But failing resume > *always* causes data in running programs to be lost, so I do not see > that as a problem.
It does for you :> Regards, Nigel -- Evolution. Enumerate the requirements. Consider the interdependencies. Calculate the probabilities. Be amazed that people believe it happened. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
