* 2.6 and diskless swap (nbd? nfs?)
@ 2004-05-02 23:41 Paul Jakma
2004-05-03 13:58 ` Pavel Machek
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From: Paul Jakma @ 2004-05-02 23:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux Kernel
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?)
2004-05-02 23:41 2.6 and diskless swap (nbd? nfs?) Paul Jakma
@ 2004-05-03 13:58 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-04 15:33 ` Paul Jakma
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From: Pavel Machek @ 2004-05-03 13:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul Jakma; +Cc: Linux Kernel
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?)
2004-05-03 13:58 ` Pavel Machek
@ 2004-05-04 15:33 ` Paul Jakma
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From: Paul Jakma @ 2004-05-04 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pavel Machek; +Cc: Linux Kernel
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.
regards,
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