Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:39:21 +0200 (METDST) | | From | Gabriel Paubert <> | | Subject | Re: embedded ROMd linux? |
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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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