FWIW, you may be better off with enbd, rather than nbd.

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 12:55 +0000, 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
> 
> 
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