From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3B7D8685.FE574210@xss.co.at> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:03:01 +0200 From: Andreas Haumer MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Swapping for diskless nodes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Pavel Machek , Alan Cox , Bulent Abali , "Dirk W. Steinberg" , Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi! Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > I'd call that configuration error. If swap-over-nbd works in all but > > such cases, its okay with me. > > Agreed. I'm very interested in this case too, I guess we > should start testing swap-over-nbd and trying to fix things > as we encounter them... > As I promised a few days ago I have just released the newest version of our NBD swap patches for Linux-2.2.19. You can find them together with the NBD swap server and client source code under the following URL: It works for us, and we think it works reasonably well. YMMV, though. Please check it out and tell us what you think. We would really like to see something like this to be included in Linux-2.5. Suggestions, improvements and ideas are welcome. Regards, - andreas -- Andreas Haumer | mailto:andreas@xss.co.at *x Software + Systeme | http://www.xss.co.at/ Karmarschgasse 51/2/20 | Tel: +43-1-6060114-0 A-1100 Vienna, Austria | Fax: +43-1-6060114-71 -- 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/