This update, together with the unannounced 0.129, fixes more bugs than
you might imagine possible in a <40-line script:
- Setting the RESUME variable anywhere other than
/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume was ignored
- Setting the RESUME variable to UUID=something or LABEL=something
was ignored
- The fallback to automatic selection of the biggest swap partition
actually sorted by dictionary order, not numeric order, of size
- There was no way to disable this automatic selection
All of which went largely unnoticed, since most systems have no more
than one swap partition, and if the resume device wasn't available at
boot we would (until version 0.128) ignore that.
I would like to automatically filter out swap device types that we know
won't be available at boot (e.g. zram). But I think this will have to
do for now. The resume hook will report when it fixes up a blank or
invalid RESUME value, and the NEWS file also explains the changes and
the new option of RESUME=none.
Ben.
Ben Hutchings (12):
hooks/resume: Use correct sort options to select the biggest swap partition
initramfs.conf(5): Clean up split between general and NFS variables
Support setting of RESUME in initramfs.conf or anywhere in conf.d/
initramfs.conf(5): Document the RESUME variable
hooks/resume: Check for chroot earlier
Allow disabling resume from disk at build time by setting RESUME=none
Support requesting automatic selection of resume device with RESUME=auto
hooks/resume: Report when we might be doing something surprising
NEWS: Add entry explaining the need for RESUME=none on some systems
Releasing version 0.129.
hooks/resume: Fix validation of resume devices specified by UUID etc.
Releasing version 0.130.
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Ben Hutchings
All extremists should be taken out and shot.
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