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Linux 6.16 Adds Ability For Power Code To Freeze The File-System For Suspend & Hibernate
Among the many VFS pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the now-open Linux 6.16 merge window is support by the power subsystem for being able to initiate file-system freeze/thaw events as part of the system suspend and resume cycle.
Among the many VFS pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the now-open Linux 6.16 merge window is support by the power subsystem for being able to initiate file-system freeze/thaw events as part of the system suspend and resume cycle. Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft submitted the "VFS freeze" updates for Linux 6.16 with those commits he primarily worked on around letting the power subsystem support file-system freezing for system suspend and hibernation. The VFS freeze pull request also adds freeze/thaw support to the EFI variables (efivars) code.
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