Re: Hardware advice: seeking echoes of running Linux-PC clusters

[Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu>]

Bruce Perens:
 > Directly booting with the root on NFS is possible with a
 > correctly-configured 1.3.9x kernel. I've not tried it. I would
 > strongly recommend that all systems have a local swap disk, as you
 > tie up your network with virtual memory paging if you don't have
 > one.

In some of the most recent kernels, swap over NFS has been disabled --
due to nasty race conditions in the some of the current memory
management code.

-- 
Raul