Bruce Perens: > Directly booting with the root on NFS is possible with a > correctly-configured 1.3.9x kernel. I've not tried it. I would > strongly recommend that all systems have a local swap disk, as you > tie up your network with virtual memory paging if you don't have > one.
In some of the most recent kernels, swap over NFS has been disabled -- due to nasty race conditions in the some of the current memory management code. -- Raul
