From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:54:01 +0000 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 Message-ID: <20071102085401.GA3921@ucw.cz> References: <20071030160401.296770000@chello.nl> <200710311426.33223.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <1193830033.27652.159.camel@twins> <47287220.8050804@garzik.org> <1193835413.27652.205.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1193835413.27652.205.camel@twins> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Jeff Garzik , Nick Piggin , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no List-ID: Hi! > > 2) Nonetheless, swap over NFS is a pretty rare case. I view this work > > as interesting, but I really don't see a huge need, for swapping over > > NBD or swapping over NFS. I tend to think swapping to a remote resource > > starts to approach "migration" rather than merely swapping. Yes, we can > > do it... but given the lack of burning need one must examine the price. > > There is a large corporate demand for this, which is why I'm doing this. > > The typical usage scenarios are: > - cluster/blades, where having local disks is a cost issue (maintenance > of failures, heat, etc) > - virtualisation, where dumping the storage on a networked storage unit > makes for trivial migration and what not.. > > But please, people who want this (I'm sure some of you are reading) do > speak up. I'm just the motivated corporate drone implementing the > feature :-) I have wyse thin client here, geode (or something) cpu, 128MB flash, 256MB RAM (IIRC). You want to swap on this one, and no, you don't want to swap to flash. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org