[Gllug] swap over the network

[Nix]

On 24 Jan 2008, Adrian McMenamin uttered the following:
> OK. For anyone interested: got NBD up and running (eventually - very
> hard to get apt to download these files in the limited memory
> available).

It's really fun when the remote box reboots. NBD uses TCP connections
and at least when I was using it (to provide half an LVM VG after an
unfortunately-timed disk failure) it didn't try to reestablish those
connections should they drop...

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