Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 wishlist | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:25:19 -0500 (CDT) | From | (Mike Castle) |
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Amazingly enough Alan Cox said: > The lowest level work to enable us to sidestep some of the deadlock cases > for this is ready for 2.0. We may manage this in 2.1. However I'd buy a disk > they are so cheap NFS swapping is a bad plan.
For labs and such, however, local harddrives are a maintainence nightmare.
There was a project a while back called "rswap," which someond did as a graduate research project. It allowed swapping over inet, only instead of an NFS file, it was a special swapping server.
Info can be found at ftp://ftp.di.uminho.pt/pub/linux/rswap (I believe the original documents are in Portugeuse, so if someone ever wanted to translate...)
The only patches were against 1.1.0, however. I wonder if the system is still feasible with 2.0....
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