Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
very small swap file on the thumb drive if you think you need it).
There is work
afoot in the Linux kernel to allow real swapping over the network.
It's not quite
there yet (the last I looked), but it does look like Linus will allow
it once it's
reaches some level of maturity.
I looked at this a LONG time ago (back when I was running diskless nodes
out of sheer necessity because the nodes we got as part of a giveaway
program had an unsupported SCSI controller). There was a "move afoot"
then, too, but this was maybe 2000. So don't hold your breath.
http://lwn.net/Articles/262379/
http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Swap_Over_NFS
http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Memory_Management_Improvements
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