Re: 2.6 and diskless swap (nbd? nfs?)

[Pavel Machek]

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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