Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Dec 1998 02:10:19 +0000 (GMT) | From | Chris Butterworth <> | Subject | Re: problems with swapfiles under 2.0.x |
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On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Shane Wegner wrote:
> Hello all, > > I am running into a problem with swap files under Linux 2.0.36. If I run > mkswap swapfile and swapon swapfile it works fine. However, if swapfile > is on an nfs mounted directory, the swapon(2) call fails with "Invalid > argument." It is necessary for me to use a swap file on a remote system > over the network. Why isn't this possible over an nfs mount? It should > just see it as a regular file and accept it. Any ideas of how I could get > around this one?
Swapping via NFS is not supported... for some notes about this, and pointers to patches see
http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/nfs-swap/nfs-swap.html
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