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Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux

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163 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 20:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[15 Nov 24 04:35 UTC] No.42144002[source]▶
> The other problem we need to solve is swap. Linux, or at least not this Linux, won't let you use a swapfile hosted over NFS; swapon will give you an illegal argument error and refuse to enable it.

To my shock, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device says

> The protocol was originally developed for Linux 2.1.55 and released in 1997.

so I wonder if you could use that? It's better suited to swap anyways.

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1. undersuit ◴[15 Nov 24 07:23 UTC] No.42144625[source]▶
Yes, NBD works. I use it to give my 256Mb Pi a swap off the sdcard. You could also use iSCSI now.
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2. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[15 Nov 24 16:45 UTC] No.42148539[source]▶
Oh, I know it works today; I was just surprised that it might possibly be an option on a 2.4-6 kernel, as I had assumed that Linux didn't get NBD until... I dunno, I would have guessed late aughts?