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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:21:08 +0100 (MET)
From: Martin Hoeller <martin@xss.co.at>
To: Andreas Osterburg <alanos@first.gmd.de>
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Subject: Re: Swapping over NFS in Linux 2.4?
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Hi!

> Because I set up a diskless Linux-workstation, I want to swap over NFS.
> For this purpose I found only patches for "older" Linux-versions (2.0, 2.1,
> 2.2?).
> Does anyone know wheter there are patches for 2.4 or does anyone know
> another solution for this problem?

maybe you want to use the network block device.

have a look at
http://www.xss.co.at/linux/NBD
and ftp://ftp.xss.co.at/pub/Linux/NBD

hth,
- martin

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