> > > 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.
Yes, I would hope that any kind of swapping over NFS would use
hard rather than soft mounts.
It's all rather theoretical, though; the fact remains that you
can require arbitrary memory to swap over IP, so it's not too
possible, anyway..
Matthew.
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