Linus Torvalds wrote: > Tell me, what does "suspend" do, and what does "freeze" (snapshot) do? > > And name *one* thing that have in common. > > I'll tell you: Nada. Zero. Zilch. Nothing. > > "Freeze" for a disk is a total no-op. There is no DMA, there is no > nothing. In contrast, "suspend" for a disk is a totally valid operation. > Freeze is a subset of suspend, isn't it? (It might be an empty subset in some cases.) - 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/
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