Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Swapping over NFS in Linux 2.4? | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 16 Nov 2000 08:55:37 -0700 |
| |
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Andreas Osterburg wrote: > > > Because I set up a diskless Linux-workstation, I want to swap > > over NFS. For this purpose I found only patches for "older" > > Linux-versions (2.0, 2.1, 2.2?). > > > Does anyone know wheter there are patches for 2.4 or does anyone > > know another solution for this problem? > > 1. you can swap over NBD > 2. if you point me to the swap-over-nfs patches you > have found, I can try to make them work on 2.4 ;)
Rik all we need to do now is convert the swapout code to address space methods just like the block device was.
This has a number of interesting effects. One of which is that brw_page should no longer have any users. Simplifying fs/buffer.c
Further this is equivalent to mounting a nfs file loop back which the address space methods now allow, but it is more direct.
Which means that if this reveals any bugs in nfs/lock ups in nfs they were already there.
This has been on my want to do list for a while but I'm busy reinventing booting so I haven't gotten to it.
Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |