From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri May 10 11:10:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA12547 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 10 May 1996 11:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA12535 Fri, 10 May 1996 11:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 11:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199605101810.LAA12535@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: kern/1186: MFS doesn't mark memory free when it's filespace cleaned Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR kern/1186; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Poul-Henning Kamp To: root@jc.f1.ru Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/1186: MFS doesn't mark memory free when it's filespace cleaned Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 17:45:25 +0000 This is expected behaviour. (see the paper in /share/doc/papers on the subject) Real solution: MFS is a hack, and a real "VMFS" should be made instead for "/tmp" use. Kirk said that this would be "really easy" so now I hope he will assign it as homework for Jordan :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.