Hello! I'm new on here.

Originally I encountered the following problem when using TuxOnIce hibernate while having a TrueCrypt file mounted as a partition: After initiating the hibernation, the called text interface of TuxOnIce stops in the beginning: "Preparing image. Try 1" and the process hung there completely (displayed progress bar is showing nothing of a progress and the session is then LOST!).

By coincidence I've now tried new ideas to track this down with the following results:
- file size of the TrueCrypt volume doesn't matter
- without TuxOnIce 3.14.10 and with in-kernel hibernate instead everything works o.k
- filesystem of mounted image doesn't matter (NTFS, FAT32 & ext4 tested)

Then I tested loop mounting itself:
- underlying file system == ext4 of a loop mounted NTFS file(system) works o.k.
- underlying file system == NTFS of a loop mounted file(system) no matter
of the loop's file system DOES NOT WORK: hibernation hangs!

So, I can't use TuxOnIce hibernate if there is some file mounted from a ntfs-3g mounted base partition?!

As I've already written to Nigel's email address (maintainer of TuxOnIce) and never got an answer, I'm now cross-posting this issue to the related mailing lists & copy-post this text to the TUXERA forum here, in the hope that there may evolve some collaboration...!?

I'm currently using 3.15.8 + CK1 + BFQ.

Best regards,,
Manuel Krause

Hi,


Probably caused by ntfs-3g being an application. When hibernating, applications are stopped first, but the system may still have data it wants to flush (syncing, unmounting or whatever).

Regards

Jean-Pierre

Thank you for your quick reply.

Excuse this maybe dumb question: Is there any way for me to change this behaviour ("ntfs-3g being an application") to allow TuxOnIce hibernation or is there needed a code change in TuxOnIce? (The in-kernel suspend-to-disk is working well but terribly slow.)

Best regards, Manuel

Hi,


There is an in-kernel ntfs driver (which does not support writing), and there are full-featured proprietary drivers. I do not know about them.

Regards

Jean-Pierre

The main point that has been undiscussed, so far, is: Why does in-kernel hibernate (suspend-to-disk) handle loop mounted files upon/from ntfs-3g mounted base partitions differently than TuxOnIce?!

As I haven't gotten any reply, I've added some lines to the tuxonice mailing lists: tuxonice-devel@tuxonice.net, +tuxonice-users...:
--->
I've now retested hibernation with a loop mounted file from a ntfs-3g mounted base partition with a 3.16.3 with_TuxOnIce: doesn't work,
and without_TuxOnIce (with in-kernel suspend-to-disk): it works.

Loop mounting this file from an ext4 base partition works in both cases.

If you need more information, please, just ask.
I suspect, that I'm the only one affected.
<---

Best regards,

Manuel Krause