Subject: kern/1805: "swap on nfs and sd0" configuration doesn't work
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/02/1995 16:17:39
>Number: 1805
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: swapon skips swdevt entries after nfs
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Dec 2 11:35:00 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Matthias Drochner
>Organization:
KFA Juelich
>Release: 1.1
>Environment:
NetBSD-1.1
System: NetBSD zelz19 1.1 NetBSD 1.1 (MIST) #11: Fri Dec 1 19:15:50 MET 1995 root@zelz19:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/MIST i386
>Description:
"swapon /dev/sd0b" on a kernel configured with
"swap on nfs and sd0" returns "not configured"
This seems to be caused by line 311 of vm_swap.c:
sp->sw_dev is NODEV for nfs swap - the whole
swap table is ignored.
>How-To-Repeat:
try to use additional swapspace on a diskless machine
>Fix:
(perhaps part of a more general solution...)
one could simply change this condition to include
swp->sw_vp != NULL (like in swapinit, line 127)
or assign a pseudo device number to a nfs block device...
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: