Re: embedded ROMd linux?
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 1 Jul 1997 20:54:02 +0100 (BST)
> : NFS swapping is unsupported, becuase it will _never_ work
> : reliably. I've seen patches for 2.0 which try to do it, anyway
> That will be because the fact that the kernel is a single task, not ?
No its because to make NFS swapping work we would have to do the same
as the BSD systems do and precommit our network buffer pool. That is
much .5Mb or whatever off the memory available for general use.
There are some cleverer approaches to this now. But its still fairly dodgy
Alan