today in cursed tech: swap files on linux. apparently swap files aren't handled via the VFS layer because FS might want to allocate... so to make hibernation possible, swap files are made from blocks that include raw offsets into the next block on the device (via @marcan42)
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I imagine if you have a dirty/recovering RAID then you can activate that in read-only mode. And if you suspend/resume in the middle of a RAID re-stripe or similar the world might collapse into a black hole and it's all your fault.
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