[ale] SWAP over NFS

[Jerry Yu]

what about serving the swap partition over iscsi ?

   - On the server, create a lun linked to the swap partition [iscsi
   target]
   - On the thin client, use the iscsi lun as a regular scsi disk
   (partition/mkswap/swapon or a slew of conf files)  [iscsi initiator]


On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 03:56 -0400, ale-request at ale.org wrote:
> >
> > Maybe I'm missing something, but if your thin clients are powerful
> > enough to run firefox and flash smoothly, why are they being used as
> > thin clients? Wouldn't a setup like Chris is trying to accomplish
> > (swap
> > and root fs over the network, with the appropriate tmpfses so that
> > multiple clients don't clobber /var/run etc) be just as easy to
> > administer and require less beefy server hardware?
>
> Well, my server is my desktop.  It has about 120GB of disk and 1GB of
> RAM.  I'm find with these devices using disk I/O but I do not need them
> chewing up my memory.  evolution, firefox, and vmplayer do a good enough
> job wasting memory as it is.
>
> I was thinking about the multi-client one nfs root idea and had not
> thought about giving them their own /var/run, /tmp, /var/log, etc
> directories yet.  My idea was simply to copy the full system
> for /nfsroot/001, 002, 003, etc.  These systems only occupy 2GB of disk
> and I plan to only have 2 at my host at the most.
>
>
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