attaching iscsi (or ggate) disk before mounting root

[Wojciech Puchar]

thank you very much. i solved that problem other way, finally ending in 
NFS root.


but i still need raw block device as swap device, which will (rarely) be 
in active use.

What do you recommend - iscsi or geom_gate.

the latter is 100 times more simple, and i like simple solutions.

but geom_gate use userland process for I/O. Does it make a risk of 
deadlock?

is iscsi deadlock free too? i mean iscsi in kernel needs to allocate 
memory to perform swapout, but it have to wait for free memory, but memory 
will not be freed until swapout is done.