Present Perfect

• booting your software suspend-enabled linux kernel
• upgrading the Fedora kernel package, which changes the default to the newly installed kernel
• software suspending the machine because you're travelling
• turning on the machine, GRUB boots the non-software-suspend kernel when you' re not looking
• realizing this, cursing that you didn't save a bunch of stuff in your session, working for a while
• shutting down because you'll be travelling again
• remembering that you need to select the software suspend kernel at boot time
• blink in astonishment as the kernel restores the previously hibernated session, wondering how this can work since it uses the swap partition for its storage
• hack a little, compile a little, do some stuff
• be very alarmed when the compile fails because it's trying to write to a read-only file system
• check dmesg, notice your ext3 file system is experiencing a lot of errors
• reboot, only to have the boot process tell you to check your file systems manually
• get acquainted with a whole new class of ext3 errors that you didn't even know existed in the first place !

Do try this at home, it's fun ! And if anyone knows how the software suspend kernel manages to restore from a RAM image saved to a partition that got used for actual swap memory in between, do let me know.

booting your software suspend-enabled linux kernel upgrading the Fedora kernel package, which changes the default to the newly installed kernel software suspending the machine because you're travelling turning on the...