[Gllug] swap over the network

Peter Childs peterachilds at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 14:10:13 UTC 2008


On 23/01/2008, Adrian McMenamin <adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info> wrote:
>
> I need to get access to swap over the network. My development target has
> only 16MB of memory and no local writable storage (it uses nfs-root).
>
> Swap-over-NFS remains buggy - various patches to the kernel are floating
> about but are not yet in mainline (or even in -mm afaics)
>
> But the discussion about the patches suggest that swap to network attached
> storage works.
>
> Anyone here using it? Is it easy to do or does it require some patching of
> the kernel?
>
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Swap over NBD works quite well or at least it does for under LTSP for
me....  NBD is built into the Linux  Kernel

Peter Childs
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