hibernation support - lack of distro-wide coordination between systemd, dracut, anaconda, pm-utils and maybe more?

[Bastien Nocera]

----- Original Message -----
> OK not everyone is on the same page, apparently. This bug was just
> closed by Anaconda as WONTFIX.
> 
> suggested swap for laptop seems low
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037472
> 
> I don't see how hibernation works reliably with such a low default swap size.

This isn't the way to fix it. The hibernation file/partition should really be independent
of swap, because 1) you can't be sure how much swap will actually be used by the applications
so you can't be sure you'll ever have enough swap to save the RAM 2) Too much swap and the
(lack of) interactivity will make you want to advocate physical violence when your machine
is unusable for an hour because of a hungry Javascript in your 50th Firefox tab.

I requested a hibernation partition that wasn't a swap partition:
https://wiki.gnome.org/BastienNocera/KernelWishlist
but it was deemed unnecessary by kernel devs (or work-aroundable maybe):
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1810083/focus=1813873

We need to fix the kernel first, then we can ask for support in Anaconda.