swap on a lv for hibernation

[Gabriel Dragffy]

On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 10:45 -0400, Michael V. De Palatis wrote:
> Gabe,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:37:31PM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> > Hi,
> > i remember reading sometime ago about successful hibernating to a swap
> > partition that is a logical volume. Unfortunately I've lost the post, is
> > someone please able to forward me the relevant post that says how to do
> > this "trick". Cheers.
> > Gabe
> 
> You may be referring to Dagobah's suspend2-patched kernels for
> Dapper. They are available here:
> 
> http://www.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/~dagobah/dapper-kernels/
> 
> There is also a forum post somewhere that details it a little bit
> more, but I didn't find it in 2 seconds of searching (there are a lot
> of results for suspend2, but I'm sure it's there somewhere).
> 
> For what it's worth, it works perfectly[*] for me.
> 
> Mike
> 
> [*] Every once in a while, it fails on suspend and I have to switch
> the machine off. It seemed like this would only happen when I
> unplugged my laptop before it switched off, so I stopped doing
> that. Since then, I have only noticed it failing once out of dozens of
> successful times. Running uptime tells me that the machine has been
> "up" for > 6 days, and I hibernate it more than once per day, so it
> almost never fails.
> 

Aha maybe it was this. If I remember correctly however, it was Alexander
Skwar who mentioned this suspend to swap thingy, but I'm far from sure.