Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:50:13 GMT From: Bruce Bauman <bbauman@icy.phrozen.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NFS swap questions Message-ID: <200011142350.eAENoD717632@icy.phrozen.org>
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I want to build a medium-sized cluster of FreeBSD diskless clients which swap over NFS to a single FreeBSD server. Yes, I know someone is dying to tell me why this isn't a good idea. But I have to... Anyway, I want each client to allocate a swapfile on the NFS server on-the-fly and then swap to it. I DON'T want to pre-allocate swapfiles for every possible client on the server. Can I just arrange my rc.diskless environment so that I dd to swapfile.<my-ip-address> on the server and then start swapping to it? How do I add the just-created swapfile as swap on my client? One more question: If all of my swapfiles live in a single partition, do I want the partition to be mounted async and noatime? Any other recommended tweaks for better performance? Thanks for any help. -- Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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