> > 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 :)
I would imagine that the process would get killed with SIGBUS which, I
believe, is what happens when a page is needed from a file which has
disappeared from under an NFS mount.
Matthew.
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