2.6 and diskless swap (nbd? nfs?)

2.6 and diskless swap (nbd? nfs?)

[Paul Jakma]

Hi,

Just curious, what is one supposed to do for swap for diskless 
machines? Swap on NFS files refuses to work. Is swap on NBD possible 
(googling suggests patches were required - did these make it in to 
the kernel?). If not, is there any way at all to sanely do swap for 
diskless machines with 2.6?

regards,
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Re: 2.6 and diskless swap (nbd? nfs?)

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> Just curious, what is one supposed to do for swap for diskless 
> machines? Swap on NFS files refuses to work. Is swap on NBD possible 
> (googling suggests patches were required - did these make it in to 
> the kernel?). If not, is there any way at all to sanely do swap for 
> diskless machines with 2.6?

There's no way to make swapping over network work.

nbd patches never worked 100% reliably.

You'd have to write "nbd over netpoll".
				Pavel

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Re: 2.6 and diskless swap (nbd? nfs?)

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 3 May 2004, Pavel Machek wrote:

> There's no way to make swapping over network work.

Ok, fair enough.
 
> nbd patches never worked 100% reliably.

:(
 
> You'd have to write "nbd over netpoll".

Ok. :( So, diskless means no swap.

> 				Pavel

thanks for the answer.

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