The death of Hibernate?

[Anthony R Fletcher]

On 06 Mar 2012 at 17:35:22, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 06.03.2012 22:49, schrieb Rex Dieter:
> > Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > 
> >> It appears that among some kernel maintainers there's an opinion that
> >> the hibernate (suspend to disk) capability is of insufficient interest
> >> to users to justify the difficulty of maintenance.
> > 
> > It's not an issue about users' interest at all.  Obviously its a useful 
> > feature.
> 
> on machines these days?
> 
> you can guess how long it takes dump 16 GB to disk and load
> it compared with a full boot between 10 and 30 seconds (30
> seconds with a LOT of services like mail, www, mysql...)
> 

If you do a fresh boot you lose your current state....and that is
valuable. So hibernate (for long periods of down time, for example for a
long flight) is very useful.