My understanding is that ENBD has a number of enhancements, including improved reliability.
But I'm 100% sympathetic to the desire to stick with stock kernels. On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 15:40 -0500, Jim McQuillan wrote: > My understanding is the ENBD is some enhancements to work with removable > media. And, i'm pretty sure that ENBD isn't in the stock kernel. > > I'm ONLY interested in a solution that doesn't require modifying the > server kernel. > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > > > > > > 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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