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Date:      Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:32:34 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: md devices mounted with async
Message-ID:  <20080615083039.M19706@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20080614224742.17316919@gumby.homeunix.com.>
References:  <20080614224742.17316919@gumby.homeunix.com.>

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> mdmfs(8) has an example of a malloc-backed md device mounted with the
> async option. Is there any point in doing this with malloc and vnode
> devices? In neither case does a write to the file-system require a write
> to a physical disk.
i don't think so.

but if you use FreeBSD 7 use tmpfs. it says it's experimental feature, but 
still not crashed on 3 computers i use it.

what it's missing is some kind of quota, you may crash the system by 
simply filling it up and using all swap



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