Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 15 Jun 1996 13:00:10 +0200 | From | (Henning Schmiedehausen) | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 wishlist |
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alan@cymru.net (Alan Cox) writes:
>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.
This definitely has its benefits but then again there are situations where you don't want to have any moving parts in a computer (e.g. in a very dusty environment or a high availability system or if you just want to have a _quiet_ office ;-) ). And of course there are those cheap and very cute SPARCstation SLC and ELC where you don't want to destroy their grace and quietness with a shoebox doing the 'whirrrrr' sound. ;-)
So I would be happy to see NFS swap support but I can go on without it.
Ciao Henning
-- Henning Schmiedehausen ...side by side in orbit... around a fairer SUN. barnard@forge.franken.de http://www.franken.de/users/forge/henning
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