Re: swapping via nfs...

[Gregor Suhr]

Hi,
that issomthing completely different, if you use e swap partition the
kernel can (more or less) rely on un your hardware.
If you use a NFS mount, it can't, because the connection may go down. In
that case the system respectivly the processes should wait ?? until the
swapfile is reconnected. 
I hope it was correct :-).

Gregor Suhr

Brett Person wrote:
> 
> 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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