From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:03:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:03:33 -0400 Received: from camus.xss.co.at ([194.152.162.19]:10763 "EHLO camus.xss.co.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:03:18 -0400 Message-ID: <3B7D8685.FE574210@xss.co.at> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:03:01 +0200 From: Andreas Haumer Organization: xS+S - *x Software + Systeme X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 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 Subject: Re: Swapping for diskless nodes In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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