On Saturday 11 February 2012 17:09:38 Tim Connors wrote:
I presume swap over iSCSI and NFS are still prone to deadlock?
It was brought up at the October 2011 kernel summit: https://lwn.net/Articles/464292/ # Swapping over NBD and NFS remains a requested feature; the patches # are not popular, but the distributors are shipping them in their # kernels anyway. Swap over iSCSI is likely to be added in the near # future. There is a clear demand for this feature; it will probably # have to go in at some point. That links to the "Safely swapping over the net" article from April 2011 which details why this is a hard issue: https://lwn.net/Articles/439298/ I strongly suggest people who can afford to do subscribe to LWN, it's an awesome resource and Jon Corbet is one of those rare writers who can write accessible, funny and readable articles on topics that would normally be considered horribly dry. They do an invaluable job for the Linux community. cheers, Chris (LWN maniacal supporter, member #2624) -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP