On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 15:03 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/17/20 2:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 14:25 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 4/17/20 2:11 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: > > > > For the vg/offset to work the file must be contiguous (only 1 > > > > section/extent in the file). I don't see that mentioned in > > > > archlinux. > > > > > > I tried to find out the on-disk format for swap files, but wasn't able > > > to. But from the doc at > > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.html > > > > That does give some interesting insights. In particular, it explains > > why the file has to be treated specially (because during resume, the > > filesystem may not be mounted, which is what I was trying to get at > > earlier). This clears up some confusion for me at least. > > During resume, the filesystem *can't* be mounted. All the filesystem > state is in the hibernation image which you are trying to load. It's > one of those fun chicken and egg challenges. That's why there has to be > enough info in the swap file to locate the data without relying on > anything else.
Yes, that's exactly my point. However it does mean that the filesystem has to be one that the initial system understands. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
