Shareable, networked, swap device?

[Richard Tobin]

In article <BZS.90Oct27161143 at world.std.com> bzs at 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
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