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Date:      Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:35:30 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is TMPFS still highly experimental?
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On 02/10/2011 11:01, krad wrote:

> It may seem a silly question, but I have been wondering about tmpfs and zfs,
> and whether there is any point to mixing the two?
> 
> Surely if you have frequently accessed files under /tmp they are going to be
> in the arc or l2arc anyway so fairly speedy, or am I missing the point of
> tmpfs?

You use it when you want to be more certain that your data will never
touch a drive. It's not only for short lived files.




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