<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">i can see where your getting at, you do this with a lvm snapshot, to ram disk...<br><br>nice idea..<br><br>i found this http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/swsusp/8hours.pdf<br><br>many of the area's are under development...<br><br>damm gnome!!!!!<br><br>Cheers,<br>Lee<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 19/10/09, James Le Cuirot <i><chewi@aura-online.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@aura-online.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] laptop mode power saving<br>To: dundee@lists.lug.org.uk<br>Date: Monday, 19 October, 2009, 10:54 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:40:48 -0700 (PDT)<br>Lee Hughes <<a ymailto="mailto:toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk" href="/mc/compose?to=toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk">toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk</a>>
wrote:<br><br>> when i see the powermangement issues that linux is having, i really<br>> see the unix way of doing things might be slighty out of date. I<br>> don't think unix was designed with power saving in mind..... there's<br>> been progress, however, i've got a feeling if i went head to head<br>> with a windows machine on battery life, windows would come up<br>> trumps.....arrrgghh..i hate saying that.<br><br>I haven't really bothered with this, partly because of that and<br>partly because I don't think I could effectively save power without<br>spinning my drive up and down a dangerous amount regardless.<br><br>I have given some half-arsed thought towards some sort of workaround<br>involving unionfs-fuse and ramfs but I'm not sure if that would really<br>work.<br><br>James<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk"
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