mkatz@sesame.stanford.edu (Morris Katz) (11/06/89)
In article <2653@brazos.Rice.edu>, kriso@northstar writes: >Can anyone tell me if it's feasible to use a local scsi disk as the swap >disk on a network disk client Sun3/60. Yes it is feasible; but, Sun refuses to support this configuration which many of us believe in dearly. You don't say what version of SunOS you are running, but I believe that the magic incantation is the same for both 3.X and 4.X. In your configuration file you want to "specify swap on ????", where you fill in a disk partition name like sd0a for the question marks. This incantaion goes on config line and is documented in the Sun manuals. As I remember, there may be some problems in certain versions of SunOS if you don't explicitly specify all of the fields on the config line when trying to take advantage of the swapping only configuration.
joe@uunet.uu.net (Joe Michel-Angelo) (11/20/89)
In article <2834@brazos.Rice.edu>, by mkatz@sesame.stanford.edu (Morris Katz): >>Can anyone tell me if it's feasible to use a local scsi disk as the swap >>disk on a network disk client Sun3/60. > > Yes it is feasible; but, Sun refuses to support this configuration which > many of us believe in dearly. You don't say what version of SunOS you are Trying the kernel config line of: config vmunix root on type nfs swap on sd0c works perfect for any diskless 4.0.3 client with a local scsi. or: config vmunix root on nd swap on sd0c works fine for any diskless 3.X client with a local scsi. just be sure that sd0 has a valid drive lable and you are in business. you should note that the internal scsi drive on a sparc is acutally slower then an nfs file system providing network performance is acceptable....