>
> > 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 :)
In theory (because NFS is a stateless service) clients will just wait, and
when the server comes back online, they just continue.
-- SaPE
Peter Sasi <sape@sch.hu>
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