James Mansion wrote: > I'm looking for an operating system that I can use to build some > diskless workstations. > > I'd really like to be able to support swapping. > > Is it feasible to enable swap to any remote file or remote block device > with (Open)Solaris- without > risking a deadlock? > > Linux seems to be prone to deadlock. I believe historically Solaris > could swap against NFS: can > it also swap against iSCSI, and are the code paths using pre-reserved > memory so that it won't > deadlock? >
I don't know about iSCSI, but I do know that Solaris *did* swap over NFS. Why don't you set up a test system and give it a try? Darren _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
