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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:58:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
cc: Andreas Osterburg <alanos@first.gmd.de>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Swapping over NFS in Linux 2.4?
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Andreas Osterburg wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> 1. you can swap over NBD
> 2. if you point me to the swap-over-nfs patches you
>    have found, I can try to make them work on 2.4 ;)

Swap on the loop block device attached to a file over NFS seemed to work
too.


Nicolas

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