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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 00:36:46 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
        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?
> 
> 1. you can swap over NBD

Are you sure, Rik? So we no longer have low-memory deadlocks in nbd?
Wow, there used to be plenty of them in past.

Do you promise it is possible to 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 ;)

								Pavel
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I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
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