Re: Someone please get Swapping Via NFS submitted to Linus for 2.2

Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net)
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 20:57:32 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Bradley Ward Allen wrote:

[ about swap over nfs ]

# If it gets into 2.1 now, then perhaps it has a chance to stick into 2.2
# for good. I did an "egrep -i swap linux/Documentation/Configure.help"
# and found no references to the above patches. If functionality for swapping

It was my undertanding that implementing swap over nfs did something wacky
with nfs in general (like making it synchronous vs. async). I believe this
problem (or whatever it actually is) prevents it from being in the main
kernel due to the performance hit.

# -u@q.net

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