Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!richard From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Shareable, networked, swap device? Message-ID: <3665@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 29 Oct 90 15:25:04 GMT References: <144274@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 14 In article bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes: >Couldn't NFS *almost* do this right now. I considered this. The way I looked at it was that the problem is that there's no way for the client to tell the server when a page is freed. Apart from this, it could work - the server wouldn't even have to give the client a pointer into the file, it could just map (client, client's-offset) to (server's-offset). -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin