Re: kernet nfs swap

From: Andreas Haumer (andreas@xss.co.at)
Date: Mon Jun 19 2000 - 08:15:29 EST

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Hi, greetings to wonderful (and now quite cold :-) NZ!

david wrote:
>
> i need to have my swap file on my nfs server
> can the kernel do this and how or wold it tack much work to get it
> working
>
Don't know if anybody has swapping over NFS working, but we
have swapping over NBD running just fine for Linux 2.2.15 and
2.2.16! We haven't officially announced it yet, but it works
well on our xS+S Diskless Client! In fact, I'm writing this
mail on a Diskless Client with NBD swap enabled. I have KDE,
StarOffice, Netscape and VMware running together on a Diskless(!)
Client with 128MB RAM and NBD swap!

Have a look yourself:

andreas@ws1 {627} % free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 128216 126168 2048 108960 4
68524
-/+ buffers/cache: 57640 70576
Swap: 131064 91336 39728

andreas@ws1 {628} % mount
/dev/root on / type nfs
(ro,v2,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nolock,addr=192.168.162.4)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
192.168.162.4:/DC/192.168.162.51/var on /var type nfs
(rw,v3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nolock,addr=192.168.162.4)
kant:/DC/usr on /usr type nfs
(ro,v3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,addr=kant)
kant:/DC/opt on /opt type nfs
(ro,v3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,addr=kant)
schiller:/home on /home type nfs
(rw,v2,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nolock,addr=schiller)

If you are interested, you can get our sources (including
kernel patches, NBD swap server program and NBD swap client
program) from our FTP Server at
<ftp://ftp.xss.co.at/pub/BLD/BLD_2.1/SRPMS/Network/nbdswap-1.1-6.src.rpm>

We are about to set up a web-site and a mailing list for
this project, so stay tuned if you are interested! You are
of course also invited to help us with the further
development... :-)

HTH

- andreas

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