Someone please get Swapping Via NFS submitted to Linus for 2.2

Bradley Ward Allen (ulmo@Q.Net)
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:26:11 -0500

I just implemented a diskless client, and of course am interested to
see Swapping Via NFS a permanent part of the Linux Kernel. I use
2.0.32 swap via NFS patch on a 2.0.33 kernel that has MCA patches, and
everything seems to work ok. However, testing is not being performed
greatly from my end, so it seems to me this is the perfect sort of thing
to put into the 2.1 kernel set.

The main URL for the person who made the patches that work for me are:

http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/nfs-swap/

The patch I'm using:

http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/nfs-swap/linux-
2.0.32-nfs-swap.diff.gz

The latest 2.1 patch referenced in the same list:

http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/nfs-swap/linux-
2.1.66-nfs-swap.diff.gz

If it gets into 2.1 now, then perhaps it has a chance to stick into 2.2
for good. I did an "egrep -i swap linux/Documentation/Configure.help"
and found no references to the above patches. If functionality for swapping
via NFS and other filesystems (it would be nice if it worked universally
for all filesystems) is already included into the current kernel, then
please excuse my mention of it here.

-u@q.net

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