Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-01,: Re: swapping via nfs...

# Re: swapping via nfs...

Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:05:18 +0100

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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Admin wrote:

> in some other ML, someone asked about swapfiles via nfs...
> Yes, I know (and told him) that this doesn't make too much sense...

It does make sense for diskless clients and maybe in
some other situations too...

> But the question arose, what would happen if the NFS server which
> had the swapfiles went down...
> Kernel panic?

I don't see anything panic-related in the pieces of code
dealing with this, so I suspect it won't panic. I do suspect
that most of userland will die though, so the functionality
of the system will probably be less than usual :)

Rik

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