> The other problem we need to solve is swap. Linux, or at least not this Linux, won't let you use a swapfile hosted over NFS; swapon will give you an illegal argument error and refuse to enable it.

To my shock, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device says

> The protocol was originally developed for Linux 2.1.55 and released in 1997.

so I wonder if you could use that? It's better suited to swap anyways.

And this is how GD-ROMs got ripped. Broadband adapter and the shoot out the data over Ethernet