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SubjectRe: embedded ROMd linux?


On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Raul Miller wrote:

> > Pavel Machek wrote:
> > : NFS swapping is unsupported, becuase it will _never_ work
> > : reliably. I've seen patches for 2.0 which try to do it, anyway
>
> Bas Mevissen <sgm@stack.nl> wrote:
> > That will be because the fact that the kernel is a single task, not ?
>
> No, because NFS itself is not reliable.

NFS is indeed not very reliable, but diskless machines who run with
root=/dev/nfs do work quite well. They need an NFS server to boot and
why can't they swap (through NFS or any protocol) ? If swap space
is located on the same server as /, downtime will not be affected
even if swap is over NFS.

The point is that diskless systems cannot swap in the current 2.0 and 2.1
kernels, although it is a desirable feature IMHO.

Gabriel

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