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Issue808

Title include tuxonice (formerly suspend2) in kernel
Priority package Status wont-fix
Superseder Nosy List mika, suntong
Assigned To mika Topics

Created on 2010-01-30.03:55:11 by suntong, last changed 2010-01-30.09:00:41 by mika.

Messages
msg2877 (view) Author: mika Date: 2010-01-30.09:00:16
* Tong Sun wrote in grml's BTS on 20100130 / 04:55:

> I hope the advanced tuxonice can be included in grml kernel. 
[...]

I don't see tuxonice being relevant for Grml. First of all our
policy is to keep our kernel as close as possible to the vanilla
kernel. Furthermore suspend/hibernating is a feature mainly
interesting for harddisk installations and that's something on our
lower end of priorities. So NACK for pulling in a >500K kernel patch
we can't support ourselves into our official kernel, sorry.

regards,
-mika-
msg2876 (view) Author: suntong Date: 2010-01-30.03:55:06
Hi, 

I hope the advanced tuxonice can be included in grml kernel. 

Quoting How to Install Tuxonice in Ubuntu
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-tuxonice-in-ubuntu.html

“TuxOnIce is most easily described as the Linux equivalent of Windows’ hibernate
functionality, but better. It saves the contents of memory to disk and powers
down. When the computer is started up again, it reloads the contents and the
user can continue from where they left off... It generally claims to be more
configurable and flexible than the standard method, with faster hibernate and
resume times."

TuxOnIce's features include:

    * Image compression (LZF - very fast and highly recommended).
    * Full asynchronous I/O and readahead for synchronous I/O for maximum
throughput.
    * Multithreaded compression & I/O.
    * Support for any number of swap partitions and/or files.
    * The ability to cancel a suspend cycle (during suspending) by pressing escape.
    * The ability to specify a maximum image size.
    * Support for saving a full image of your memory, resulting in a fast,
responsive system after resuming.
    * Support for plugins: data transformers (compression, encryption) and new
storage backends (NFS support is planned).
    * Works out of the box for most configurations.
    * Nice user interface (GenSplash compatible).
    * Support for Highmem (up to 4GB), SMP and preemptive kernels.
    * Scripting support.
    * Speed and reliability - Software Suspend has been extensively tested in a
variety of configurations over many months. It is not guaranteed to be perfect,
but bugs found will be hunted and fixed quickly.
    * Can be configured to be a drop-in replacement for swsusp (for swap
partitions - swap files are configured more simply with TuxOnIce).
    * Preliminary FUSE support.
    * (Work in progress:) Cluster support.

[Taken from: http://www.tuxonice.net/features]

Thanks
History
Date User Action Args
2010-01-30 09:00:41mikasetstatus: chatting -> wont-fix
assignedto: mika
nosy: + mika
2010-01-30 09:00:19mikasetstatus: unread -> chatting
messages: + msg2877
2010-01-30 03:55:11suntongcreate