Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 May 2004 15:58:56 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 and diskless swap (nbd? nfs?) |
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Hi!
> Just curious, what is one supposed to do for swap for diskless > machines? Swap on NFS files refuses to work. Is swap on NBD possible > (googling suggests patches were required - did these make it in to > the kernel?). If not, is there any way at all to sanely do swap for > diskless machines with 2.6?
There's no way to make swapping over network work.
nbd patches never worked 100% reliably.
You'd have to write "nbd over netpoll". Pavel
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