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Subject: Re: Swapping for diskless nodes
To: dws@dirksteinberg.de (Dirk W. Steinberg)
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 16:14:03 +0100 (BST)
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> 
> Alan,
> 
> what you say sound a lot like a hacker solution ("check that it uses the
> right GFP_ levels"). I think it's about time that this deficit of linux

Nope. I'm simply advising people to check that nbd is correctly written.

> as compared to SunOS or *BSD should be removed. Network paging should be
> supported as a standard feature of a stock kernel compile.

There I'd agree entirely.