Re: swapping via nfs...

Sasi Peter (sape@iq.rulez.org)
Wed, 5 Jan 2000 00:31:16 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

>
> > 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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