Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 20:31:59 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@Dataplex.NET> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Booting a diskless client. Message-ID: <l03130308b162f7dcabf2@[208.2.87.6]> In-Reply-To: <199804220051.UAA20060@rtfm.ziplink.net> References: <l03130307b162e4661993@[208.2.87.6]> from "Richard Wackerbarth" at "Apr 21, 98 07:13:46 pm"
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At 7:51 PM -0500 4/21/98, Mikhail Teterin wrote: >Richard Wackerbarth once stated: > >=>/diskless/swapfiles: >=>total 2064 >=>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 1048576 Apr 21 14:56 swap.208.2.87.13 > >Now, this would be a fine project for someone, to make NFS server >let clients share a _single_ swap file efficiently and safely :) Come noww, you know that you can only squeeze so much information in a fixed number of "flops" :-) Now, the ability to dynamically resize the swap space is another issue. Actually, that can be accomplished if you insert a layer in the storage stack that redirects to allocation, much in the manner that page maps do it for the allocation of virtual addresses to real addresses. You would also need to be able to communicate back to the vm that you wished it to decrease its load on swap space. Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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