I just remembered a time we ran out of memory on a very slow machine that had no hard disk and discovered that you could use a file on NFS as a swap device (it worked, and we were able to complete the thing we needed to do, but it was very slow), but now I’m wondering if anyone is doing swap over iSCSI.
@david_chisnall I'd hope they're moving over to NVMe over TCP these days
@ignaloidas @david_chisnall They are.

NVMe-oF is the trendy new thing.

@lispi314 @ignaloidas

I heard of it for the first time yesterday. This morning, there was a security advisory for the FreeBSD implementation. This is why I should not learn new things.

@david_chisnall @[email protected] Incredible vulnerability, having a null pointer dereference when logging message warning that the parameters given are invalid and it can't find the thing that it then subsequently dereferences