Re: ENBD and swap

[email protected] Tue, 6 Dec 2005 12:24:49 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.enbd.general
Message-ID <OF9676C68B.EEE06FF9-ON852570CF.005F88BB-852570CF.005FA82A@mitel.com>
> LTSP currently works fine by using the swap-over-NFS patch. However this
> patch is not present in the 2.6 kernel, and keeps LTSP stuck with 2.4
> for now.

I have successfully swapped over NFS with the 2.6.9-11 kernel. I employed 
a regular file under nfsserverhost:/var which I converted to swap space:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap bs=1k count=300000
# mkswap /var/swap
# /sbin/losetup /dev/loop0 /var/swap
# swapon /dev/loop0

... Dave