On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Peter Childs wrote:
> Jim McQuillan wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > Progress Report, nbd works, on the client, fine. The patch which is > meantioned on the website for nbdswap to work is I think needed. And strangly > this seams to be a default part of the debian kernel on my computers, but is > not in the ltsp kernel I'm using, which means recompiling the ltsp client > kernel with the patch. Yeah, that's no problem. We'll just make it a standard part of the LTSP kernel. > The comment on enbd. There is no reason why you can't use enbd instead you > only need to install the right module on the client harddisk -image. Are you saying that you don't need to add ENBD to the servers kernel? > nbd seams to have very limited error reporting which is why this job is > more difficult than it should be. > > Peter Childs Thanks, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > 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 > > > > > nbd has very limited error reports would be nice if it was able to connect > for it to output an error if it is not going to work !!! > > inital tests show nbd to work fine on the server, its a matter of scripting it > to work on startup now, and create the right files. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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
