Comments on: Swapping to a Floppy Disk http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/08/28/swapping-to-a-floppy-disk/ Linux, politics, and other interesting things Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: etbe http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/08/28/swapping-to-a-floppy-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-15559 etbe Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:55:32 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/?p=737#comment-15559 Gunnar: My experience is that floppy disk reliability problems are mostly related to transportation. Keep a disk in a drive and the reliability is reasonably good. Albert: There is a risk of a kernel deadlock if the kernel code related to iSCSI (which includes the TCP stack, netfilter, and more) tries to allocate memory - I believe this is why swap over NFS is not supported. Gunnar: My experience is that floppy disk reliability problems are mostly related to transportation. Keep a disk in a drive and the reliability is reasonably good.

Albert: There is a risk of a kernel deadlock if the kernel code related to iSCSI (which includes the TCP stack, netfilter, and more) tries to allocate memory – I believe this is why swap over NFS is not supported.

]]> By: Albert Lash http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/08/28/swapping-to-a-floppy-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-15557 Albert Lash Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:31:41 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/?p=737#comment-15557 I wonder how an iSCSI device would work. Its not NFS, so it could work. I wonder how an iSCSI device would work. Its not NFS, so it could work.

]]> By: Gunnar Wolf http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/08/28/swapping-to-a-floppy-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-15556 Gunnar Wolf Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:39:15 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/?p=737#comment-15556 Umh... Nowadays, it would even be more trustable to swap to /dev/urandom. Floppy disks have achieved zero reliability. Umh… Nowadays, it would even be more trustable to swap to /dev/urandom. Floppy disks have achieved zero reliability.

]]> By: Berto http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/08/28/swapping-to-a-floppy-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-15555 Berto Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:34:07 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/?p=737#comment-15555 Very funny ! This one is not exactly an anecdote, but the story of these two guys who developed an emulator during the Bosnian war is not bad either ;) http://www.worldofspectrum.org/warajevo/Story.html Very funny !

This one is not exactly an anecdote, but the story of these two guys who developed an emulator during the Bosnian war is not bad either ;)

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/warajevo/Story.html

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