usb stick as swap partition

[W. Guy Thomas]

On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 15:28, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Walter Francis wrote (about swapping to a USB stick):
> > This has GOT to be the DUMBEST idea I've ever heard.
> 
> So you don't want me to tell you about swapping to NFS shares. Over
> thick Ethernet (shared 10 Mbit/s).
> 
> (To be fair, this is the sort of thing that might have been done fifteen
> years ago, on diskless servers with not much RAM and no-where else to
> swap. RAM and disks were expensive back then).
> 
> James.
> 
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I have been pondering that all morning, just for grins.
Especially NFS sharing swap over wireless! 
Just because I CAN.
LMAO.

=G