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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 >
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