Peter, Thanks, that's excellent work. I'm very interested to see how it works on a thin client. This could completely solve our NFS-Swap issue.
Jim. On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Peter Childs wrote: > Peter Childs wrote: > > > Jim McQuillan wrote: > > > > > I've been looking at using nbd for swapping, but i've just not had the > > > time to do it. > > > > > > > > > > I've been trying to get this working, I've a load of thin clients that > > crash and I'm out of ideas why, I've noticed that nfs keeps dropping off for > > no reason on our network, So I thought nbd might be more stable especally > > for swap. > > I've been trying to get it working between two servers first. But the > > notes on the internet seam slighly terriable. > > > > mkswap /dev/nbd/0 > > > > works fine which most of the comments say it should not. however > > > > swapon /dev/nbd/0 > > > > says "swapon: /dev/nbd/0: Invalid argument" > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Peter Childs > > > In answer to my own question, when creating the file with dd the bs must be > specified to be a good value. |bs=1048576 works quite nicely. I'm going to try > with a thin client tomarrow at work, I'll report back with my success and > maybe a howto once its working. > > Peter Childs > | > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
