From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264373AbUEDODC (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 10:03:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264379AbUEDOBa (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 10:01:30 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:6379 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264373AbUEDOAb (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 10:00:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 15:58:56 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Paul Jakma Cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.6 and diskless swap (nbd? nfs?) Message-ID: <20040503135856.GF1188@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms