Re: Rapid re-boot (Windows or Linux)

On Jan 31, 4:05 am, Paul Burke <p...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

2. Filesystem consistency. Hibernation assumes that non-
removable filesystems have not changed across wakeups. If this is not
true, then you need to jump through a lot of hoops.

That ought to be true unless the thing's been hit by a meteor, as there
are no removeable media.

Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing: If I didn't
misunderstand, you are trying to include a fixed system state to use
instead of the normal boot process. This frozen system snapshot will
fall over spectacularly (corrupt the filesystem and die) if the
filesystem changes from the way it was WHEN THE SNAPSHOT WAS TAKEN.
Special measures need to be taken to prevent this.

Hibernation in W2K lets you put the machine to sleep nicely and wake
it up without doing a full reboot. It does NOT let you start the
machine quickly after a power failure.

Linux's STD feature - with a little jiggery-pokery - can be made to do
a "fast start" of the type you require, although it's quite messy.

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