Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:49:29 -0500 From: Bruce Bauman <bbauman@wgate.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: bbauman@wgate.com Subject: NFS swap questions Message-ID: <20001115194939.5797B37B4C5@hub.freebsd.org>
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I want to build a medium-sized cluster of diskless FreeBSD 4.X-stable machines, all booting from a single FreeBSD server. I want them to swap over NFS to a single partition on the server. Because of the number of clients, I'd like the clients to allocate their swap files dynamically during boot (e.g. dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfsswap/swapfile.<ip-address> bs=1M count=256). I intend to do this by slightly hacking the rc.diskless scripts. How do I then enable swapping on these files? The available documentation isn't very clear. Second question: Are there any recommended options for the filesystem on which the swap files will live? Should it be async and noatime? Any other performance tuning tricks? Thanks for any insight. -- Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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