network block device server (nbdd)

[Sebastian Tomac]

Mark Hahn wrote:

> > It would be of interest to get comments and criticism.
>
> the most obvious question is whether this permits diskless machines
> to swap.  that, in turn, depends on whether the client can cooperate
> with potential allocations by the network to avoid deadlock.

The nbdd kernel server supports using the exported block device as a
swap device
by the nbd client.  For instructions on howto setup swapping over
a nbd client I'll refer to the nbd client homepage,
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/nbd/nbd.html
Remember that the nbd client is started (and in some respects run) by a
user space process.


Sebastian Tomac



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