From: Kenneth Johansson <ken@kieraypc01.p.y.ki.era.ericsson.se>
To: Jim Chapman <jim.chapman@iname.com>
Cc: "linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org"
<linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: configuring swap on a diskless mpc860 embedded target
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:50:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38351D54.34124FBD@switchboard.ericsson.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38340F9F.E7A9CC63@iname.com
A question:
Have you ever swapped over nfs on any linux system? I don't think it
works.
The only way I know of is using the network block device and a patch to make
swapping over that work.
Jim Chapman wrote:
> Is anyone using an NFS-mounted swap file on an mpc860 diskless system?
>
> I created a swap file on the embedded target using
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/SWAPFILE bs=1k count=8192
> mkswap /SWAPFILE
>
> But when I try to enable swapping using "swapon /SWAPFILE", linux
> complains that it can't find a swap signature in the file. I've looked
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-19 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-18 14:39 configuring swap on a diskless mpc860 embedded target Jim Chapman
1999-11-18 15:47 ` Dan Malek
1999-11-19 9:50 ` Kenneth Johansson [this message]
1999-11-19 11:39 ` Leif Lindholm
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