>Hello: > > I intend to keep my main root filesystem as ramdisk but other things >such as /lib and my main application as residing on a remote NFS >server. My question is: in case the main application running amok and >cause core dump, will it necessarily core dump back to the server disk >via NFS, assuming the core dump is not so serious as to render the >kernel braindead? Yes it will, diskless root or not. With a fast network connection and a good server this isn't necessarily a problem. The problem is when lots of clients do it around the same time. > If so, do I have to patch the kernel for NFS swap? I intend to keep >the main root residing on RAMdisk anyway so my NFS mount only plays a >secondary role. Won't help. Swap is for moving working memory in and out of swap space.
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