On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:08:04PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > A sane way could be to refuse suspend if there are open files on the > > network storage as the state could get severly garbled if suspending > > with potentially dirty cache content or even resuming with some > > expectation about the files state (which might have changed in the last > > hours while we were suspended) so you could garble servers files on > > resume because somebody else already appended to the file etc > > I do not have any profound knowledge about netword filesystems, but I do > think this is highly unlikely. I mean, a network filesystem must be (by > nature of going over an unreliable medium) tolerant to timeouts and > clients comming back after being disconnected, etc. Also these filesystems > are almost certainly developed with a multi-user environment in mind, so > your argument about somebody else altering the file and causing corruption > seems unlikely. > > Of course a user who resumes his machine could of course save his old file > over a new one, but that wouldn't be different from somebody leaving his > machine on for the night, comming back and doing the same.
The point is you halt the application in the middle of saving and
continue to save on resume - Nothing the user can prevent - you are
stopping the whole system.
> To conclude, I don't think thers is a technical reason to honour your
> whislist request in pm-utils. I do think there is probably a demant for
> something like this, but the best place to do something about it would be
> some higher level app. A level where people can interact and say yes/no or
> set a default, like gnome-volumne-manager or so.
The point is that all other tools to suspend have this option and it is
used a lot.
Suspend also takes down networking
(/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/10NetworkManager) whats the point in this? I
mean if you take down networking you also should take care of taking
down network filestems before disabling networking. This is inconsitent
behaviour ...
Flo
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