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That version of Linux should have an NBD client (nbd.ko + nbd-client), so either swapping on NBD or using an external NBD device as a filesystem would be an opt
by rwmj 4y ago
That version of Linux should have an NBD client (nbd.ko + nbd-client), so either swapping on NBD or using an external NBD device as a filesystem would be an option. He will need the corresponding oldstyle NBD server, eg: 'nbdkit --oldstyle memory 1G' to create a 1 gig RAM disk on the server side on port 10809.
- classichasclass 4y ago(author) An interesting idea but the only `nbd*` I can find in the tree is `./usr/include/linux/nbd.h`; there's no kernel module or client pre-built. Also, I'm not sure this wouldn't exacerbate the issues with the Realtek just as badly as swap-over-NFS would, so the kernel upgrade would make more sense first.
- rwmj 4y agoOh that's a shame. NBD definitely existed in 2001, but they must have decided not to include the module in the build :-( I agree that NBD would be heavy on the network and would probably trigger the "20 times" bug in that useless Realtek driver.