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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:50:12 +0100
From: Kenneth Johansson <ken@kieraypc01.p.y.ki.era.ericsson.se>
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To: Jim Chapman <jim.chapman@iname.com>
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Subject: Re: configuring swap on a diskless mpc860 embedded target
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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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