[Gllug] SWAP over NFS

Dylan dylan at dylan.me.uk
Wed Apr 9 12:19:11 UTC 2003


On Wednesday 09 April 2003 10:48, Tethys wrote:
> Adrian McMenamin writes:
> >istr that I need to mount something via loop - as I know someone else
> >has done this (mounted swap via NFS on a Dreamcast) and he did that I
> >am sure - but I cannot contact him at the moment, hence requests for
> >general guidance.
>
> Last time I looked, loopback mounts didn't work over NFS, so I doubt
> the solution lies in that direction. But that was a few years ago now,
> so things may have changed since then.

Works here for an encrypted fs in user home directories, so in principle it 
should work for swap.

Dylan

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