Re: swapping via nfs...

[Brett Person]

Yes, things die.  At least they did for me. I've had this happen in a n
environment where the swap was on an ancient 2940 controller that wrote
bad
data and made partitons do strange things. I actually lost the swap this
way once and my system locked up solid. 

Brett G. Person
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

> 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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