Re: Swapping over NFS in Linux 2.4?

From: Nicolas Pitre (nico@cam.org)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 11:58:17 EST


On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

> 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 ;)

Swap on the loop block device attached to a file over NFS seemed to work
too.

Nicolas

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