Subject: Re: Uninterruptible wait lockup.
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Peter Svensson <petersv@df.lth.se>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/24/1995 11:53:59
On Sun, 24 Dec 1995, der Mouse wrote:

> Everything I've seen leads me to believe that paging and/or swapping
> over NFS simply does not work.  When I made /usr/src an NFS mount and
> started doing "make build"s, I saw things crashing and hanging right
> and left - I eventually had to go back to ufs-mounted /usr/src (this
> was before ufs->ffs).
> 
> Looking into this is something I hope to get around to, but don't hold
> yer breath. :-/

Interesting. We run several compleatly diskless clients and one wich only 
hase local root+swap, the whole /usr is nfs-mounted. No problems with 
either.

Peter